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Ugandan Medics Tackling Ebola Say They Lack Supplies

Associated Press

   BWERA, UGANDA - The isolation ward for Ebola patients is a tent erected
   in the garden of the local hospital. Gloves are given out sparingly to
   health workers. And when the second person in this Uganda border town
   died after the virus outbreak spread from neighboring Congo, the
   hospital for several hours couldn't find a vehicle to take away the
   body.
   "We don't really have an isolation ward," the Bwera Hospital's
   administrator, Pedson Buthalha, told The Associated Press. "It's just a
   tent. To be honest, we can't accommodate more than five people."

   Medical workers leading Uganda's effort against Ebola lament what they
   call limited support in the days since infected members of a
   Congolese-Ugandan family showed up, one vomiting blood. Three have
   since died.

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