Uganda faces outbreak of conjunctivitis

KAMPALA, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye, has broken out in Uganda, with cases reported in eight prisons across the East African country and in schools in the capital of Kampala, health authorities said on Thursday.

The Ministry of Health said in a statement that as of Wednesday, a cumulative total of 790 cases had been diagnosed in the affected prison facilities, of which 711 had been declared recovered; a cumulative total of 954 cases had been registered in schools in Kampala.