Coat of arms of the Republic of Uganda Points of Entry Health Screening Republic of Uganda · Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Health screening at Uganda’s points of entry

Screening officers record every traveller they screen — at the airport, at a land border, at a lake port — and the same record is what a district supervisor and the national team work from when somebody needs to be followed up.

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Get the app

The field app for Android, and the browser version for iPhone, iPad and desktop. Both work on a slow connection; the app also works with no connection at all and sends what it holds when the signal comes back.

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Get an account

Accounts are issued by the National Administrator at the Ministry, to named officers. There is no self-registration, and there is no shared account for a post.

Officers, supervisors and national staff

Updates

What changed, and how a change reaches a device in the field. The app updates itself; nobody has to reinstall it to get a fix.

Release notes and how updating works

What the service does

A screening is a short structured interview and a temperature reading, recorded against the traveller’s trip. Where the answers meet the criteria the Ministry has set, the record is raised as a suspected case and the people responsible for following it up are notified.

Everything an officer records at a post is visible to their district supervisor and to the national team, so nobody has to send a spreadsheet at the end of the week for the country to know what happened today.

Who uses it

  • Screening officers at points of entry, on a phone or tablet.
  • District supervisors, following up cases in their district.
  • National staff at the Ministry, watching the whole country.
  • Public health emergency staff, when an alert is raised.

Guidance on how screening is conducted, and the training library, are for people who hold an account. Sign in to read them.