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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>A Authorities in Gulu District are at crossroads after Gulu Regional Referral Hospital ran out of drugs for treating Covid-19 patients amid rise in cases. \u201cThe hospital has run out of stock for essential medicines such as Vitamin D, Vitamin C and Azithromycin,\u201d Mr Janani Loum, the regional surveillance officer, said while addressing the district taskforce committee on Monday.<\/p>\n

Mr Loum said the stockout came at a time when the hospital is struggling to treat an increasing number of Covid patients. He said they have resorted to sending the patients\u2019 relatives to buy the drugs from private facilities or pharmacies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a choice but to recommend relatives to buy the drugs from private clinics,\u201d Mr Loum said. There are 13 Covid-19 patients in critical condition at Gulu Hospital. Dr Micheal Mukibi, the World Health Organisation case management officer, said they were mobilising to support the hospital with the drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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A Authorities in Gulu District are at crossroads after Gulu Regional Referral Hospital ran out of drugs for treating Covid-19 patients amid rise in cases. \u201cThe hospital has run out of stock for essential medicines such as Vitamin D, Vitamin C and Azithromycin,\u201d Mr Janani Loum, the regional surveillance officer, said while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":12772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-12773","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":"\nGulu Hospital runs out of Covid drugs - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Authorities in Gulu District are at crossroads after Gulu Regional Referral Hospital ran out of drugs for treating Cov ...\" \/>\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\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gulu Hospital runs out of Covid drugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Authorities in Gulu District are at crossroads after Gulu Regional Referral Hospital ran out of drugs for treating Cov ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs\" \/>\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=\"2021-06-23T14:42:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60d33d6aacac7.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\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gulu Hospital runs out of Covid drugs\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-23T14:42:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs\"},\"wordCount\":161,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60d33d6aacac7.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\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/gulu-hospital-runs-out-of-covid-drugs\",\"name\":\"Gulu Hospital runs out of Covid drugs - 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