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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Ministry of Health has asked health workers to wear two masks while at work as a preventive measure against Covid-19.<\/p>\n

In a January 7 letter to all hospital administrators, district health officers and medical superintendents, Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general for health services, said health workers are more exposed given that the second wave of the virus spreads faster than the previous wave.\u201cAs health workers, you interface with many patients daily and you are at a high risk of contracting Covid-19. The scientific advisory committee has guided that health workers, because of the risk, need to use two masks while in clinic\/wards,\u201d Dr Mwebesa wrote.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Health has further asked health workers to adhere to prevention and control measures to avoid contracting Covid-19.During the first wave, health workers faced a shortage of personal protective equipment. Dr Mukuzi Muhereza, the general secretary of the Uganda Medical Association (UMA), said the ministry needs to provide more guidance.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the questions that I am getting from practitioners are; \u2018is there proof that two masks are better than one?\u2019 then the comfort of the masks, what about people using N95? So we are still waiting for guidance,\u201d Dr Muhereza said.Some health workers asked if government will be able to provide the two masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. The Ministry of Health has asked health workers to wear two masks while at work as a preventive measure against Covid-19. In a January 7 letter to all hospital administrators, district health officers and medical superintendents, Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general for health services, said health workers are more exposed given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-11970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"\nHealth workers ordered to wear 2 masks - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ministry of Health has asked health workers to wear two masks while at work as a preventive measure against Covid-19 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health workers ordered to wear 2 masks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Ministry of Health has asked health workers to wear two masks while at work as a preventive measure against Covid-19 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-10T14:04:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60c2196ce682b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Health workers ordered to wear 2 masks\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-10T14:04:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks\"},\"wordCount\":226,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60c2196ce682b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/health-workers-ordered-to-wear-2-masks\",\"name\":\"Health workers ordered to wear 2 masks - 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