A nurse and also victim of Covid-19 who on behalf of other patients recorded a video exposing the sorry state of an isolation ward at Masaka regional referral hospital is under investigation by police in Masaka.

The Covid-19 task force together with Security authorities in Masaka District said they have already launched investigations to establish the nurse’s motive to record a video that went viral on social media,

Masaka district Covid-19 task force chairperson, Herman Ssentongo who is also the Masaka RDC told journalists on Thursday that Ms Mary Aliona, a former nurse who recorded the video which he says was full of falsehoods had “a hidden agenda” which they are yet to establish because what features in the video aims at frustrating the efforts of the health workers at the treatment centre.

“We have intelligence information that she was trying to get out of the country to go to Tanzania through Mutukula, so as to proceed with her journey to South Korea but we all know Mutukula and Kyotera are under total lockdown being near the border. We have started to investigate how she got there and whom she travelled with to Mutukula,” Ssentongo said.

Dr Mark Jjuko, the in-charge of Masaka regional COVID-19 treatment centre revealed that one of the children seen in the patients’ ward as depicted in the video belongs to one of the patients, a single mother who had no one else to leave her child with after she was admitted.

“We have handled several patients with children especially those that don’t have relatives to take care of their children at home. We take them (Patients and children) through safety precaution measures and they have all lived well and no one, including those that we have been discharged before, has ever tested positive,” he said.

The ministry of health that is at the frontline of the pandemic has in the past assured the nation that the isolation centres are you to the standards of the World Health organizations.