Another health worker has succumbed to Ebola at Fort Portal Hospital.
Ms Nabisubi Margaret, 58, an anaesthetic officer breathed her last today morning at around 4:33 AM.
She has been battling the disease for 17 days.
Nabisubi is one of the six medical workers from Mubende hospital who were transferred to Fort Portal last week.
In September, the Ministry of Health confirmed an outbreak of Ebola in Mubende district, after a sample taken from a 24-year-old male from the Madudu sub-county came out positive for the Sudan strain of Ebola.
Ebola has been confirmed in four districts including Mubende where the first case was reported. Others are Kyegegwa with three confirmed cases, Kassandra with one case, and Kagadi where another case was confirmed case.
Nabisubi becomes the fourth health officer to have succumbed to Ebola ever since its outbreak was announced last month.
Since the outbreak was announced last month, the confirmed cases had increased from 1 to 43 and the deaths have also increased from 1 to 9 as of Tuesday.
The case-fatality rate for the disease ranges from 25 percent to 90 percent, according to the World Health Organisation. This is higher than that of Covid-19, whose case-fatality rate is at around 3 percent.
According to the Health Ministry, EVD is transmitted through contact with the blood, stool or fluids of an infected person and objects that have been contaminated with body fluids from an infected person.
One can also contract the disease through contact with blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals such as fruit bats and other wild animals.
The known symptoms of Ebola include high body temperatures, fatigue, chest pain, diarrhoea, vomiting, unexplained bleeding, yellowing of the eyes. Bleeding is usually a late presentation after the above symptoms, according to the Health Ministry.
