Health experts have cautioned parents who leave their children under the full care of housemaids.

This was revealed yesterday during the media café which was held at Holy Innocents Children’s Hospital Organised by the Health Journalist Network of Uganda in Nyamitanga Mbarara City.

Facilitating the café, Dr Mike Kyiwalyanga a pediatrician doctor at Holy Innocents Hospital said that it would be paramount to understand the health status of the housemaids parents use in their homes to safeguard the health of their children.

He said that most parents do not bother testing these house helps whom they leave their babies with. According to him, they have registered cases where parents are negative and their children are positive which this happens at home because mothers are not aware of the status of housemaids they employ since there are many cases where maids have transmitted HIV to children of their bosses.

Fredrick Kamugisha the Mbarara District Health Educator asked parents to test strangers and even relatives they bring into their home as a precaution.