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Ugandan health authorities issued an alert this Thursday, January 30, following the confirmation by several laboratories of a first case of the disease in the capital, Kampala.
“An outbreak caused by the Ebola-Sudan viral disease has been confirmed in Kampala, following confirmation by three national reference laboratories,” announced the permanent secretary of the Ugandan Ministry of Health, Diana Atwine, on the X social network.
Following the death of an index case, a 32-year-old nurse who worked at Mulago National Hospital in Kampala, “no other health professionals or patients on the ward have shown signs or symptoms of Ebola”.
Emergency measures have been put in place to limit the spread of this viral hemorrhagic fever.
Two hospitals, one in Kampala and the other in Mbale, in eastern Uganda, have been put on alert to deal with any new suspected cases.
The Ministry of Health has set up an emergency hotline, calling on all public and private sector workers to exercise the utmost vigilance.
In a press release, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that it was sending high-level public health experts and staff to the country, and that it was making a million dollars available to the Ugandan authorities to combat the epidemic.
