With many people allegedly feigning sickness to beat security at various roadblocks and check points, Police has today announced a move to deploy medical workers at the different designated points.
Patients with evidence of the sickness were among the people the President Museveni said patients with evidence of the sickness should be left to move to health facilities for treatment.
While addressing journalists , Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga said they have received several cases of people feigning sickness so as to be allowed to move freely but said they have devised means to deal with the problem.
“As the joint security task force, we are on track to continue to enforce lockdown and reduce the spread of the virus and to this, we have noticed people making excuses of going for vaccination yet vaccination is not taking place. Management has decided that we shall have medical teams as part of our deployments at our checkpoints to counter such fake accounts from patients,” Enanga said.
The move comes after a video circulated on social media where police officers forced a lady who was was suspected to be sick to remove a cannula from her hand. It was later found out that she was feigning sickness to beat a security checkpoint.
Enanga said that as part of the police operations last week, 2180 persons were arrested last week for flouting the SOPs , 215 released on police bond, 73 pending and 612 arraigned before courts of law whereas 1130 motor vehicles impounded and 691 issued with express penalty tickets.