Over 1000 people from four islands in Buvuma district have been left homeless following strong winds which ravaged them on Saturday evening.
Fred Opondo, the Lubya Town Council chairperson says the affected islands include; Kirewe, Namiti, Makaraga and Labolo. Opondo reports that this incident happened on Saturday evening at around 8:00pm.
Andrew Balyemeka, the Health Assistant at Kirewe Health Centre II says they received two patients who had been injured and bleeding furiously.
Balyemeka said the victims who are currently admitted at the facility include; Miriam Anyango (60) and her three-year-old daughter Irene Akoth.
Balyemeka says Anyango sustained severa cuts on the head and the left hand whereas her granddaughter got cuts on her forehead.
Most of the houses more so at Kirewe landing site lost their roofs and the affected include residential houses, churches and three schools.
The local leaders have however decried the fact that the only health center II at this landing site lacks not only medicine but also the health workers’ personal protective equipments.
For that note, Balyemeka says he was forced to handle the patients with his bare hands without gloves though the duo were several bleeding.
The members of parliament, Robert Migadde Ndugwa and the woman MP Susan Nakaziba have visited the affected landing sites to ascertain the magnitude of the damage on the ground.
The leaders have called on the government to come to the rescue of the residents in a number of ways including foodstuffs, shelter and treatment in form of drugs.
Migadde says it’s unfortunate where by the residents are sleeping in open spaces following the fact that even the churches and schools where they would seek accomodation from were equally affected.