KAMPALA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Uganda has lost 16 medical doctors to COVID-19 in four weeks, a local medical workers' association said Monday.
Mukuzi Muhereza, Secretary-General of Uganda Medical Association, told Xinhua by telephone that the deaths were recorded between the last part of June and early July.
They died of COVID-19 from various places across the country, Muhereza said.
He said the dead included a neurosurgeon, a young ear, nose and throat surgeon and a pediatrician.
Muhereza said, the association has decided to call upon all doctors in the country to contribute at least 300 U.S. dollars each to help fellow medics who test positive for COVID-19 and require lots of money for treatment.
He called upon the government to come up with a specific health fund to cater for doctors and other health workers amid the pandemic.
Uganda has so far registered 90,656 COVID-19 infections. So far, 2,392 people have died due to the virus since March last year. Enditem