At least six health workers at Mubende hospital have tested positive for Ebola
A Ugandan trainee doctor who recovered from Ebola was officially discharged from hospital on Tuesday.
Hudson Kunsa is a final year medical student and a trainee doctor at Mubende hospital.
He shared his journey to recovery with the BBC in an interview.
“You start with general body weakness, fevers. Your first thought as a doctor is to rule out the common things we have. I went and took my test for Ebola. After two days when they called me to the hospital, I knew it was positive.
So after we went to the isolation [centre] with the symptoms just starting and two, three, four, five days down the road we were at the peak of all the symptoms that you know of; the vomiting, the diarrhoea, the general body weakness. It was not a very good experience.”
The thought of death always lurked in his mind, he said.
“At one point I was scared, thinking that we were going to die. You would see yourself diarrheaing everything out. They tell you, you have to drink but still you don’t want to drink. But eventually I came out. But the scared part was there.”
He blamed the lack of protective equipment for contracting the disease.
“This happened because we didn’t enough protective equipment as medics to use. By the time the patient we worked on died and we started experiencing the symptoms we knew that possibly we could also be infected with Ebola.”
-BBC
