Uganda, March 15 -- With more than 950 cases of infection with a contagious eye disease, conjunctivitis (red eyes), registered in schools and prisons, health experts have prescribed a raft of measures to prevent and manage the disease.

Dr Daniel Kyabayinze, the director of public health at the Health ministry, said yesterday in Kampala that the disease presents with many signs and symptoms.

"The patients will say there is irritation of the eye, they don't want to look in bright light (increased sensitivity to light), the eyes pain and there is a discharge," he noted.

"When the clinicians examine, they will find that the eye is inflamed, the conjunctiva, which is the lining inside of the eyelids and covers the sclera (the white of the e...