Ministry of Effectively being and WHO collaborate with Kampala capital city leadership to strengthen Ebola response
The Ministry of Effectively being (MOH), with relief from the World Effectively being Organization (WHO) convened a assembly with the top leadership of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) to focus on ways of strengthening the Ebola outbreak response in Uganda’s capital.
MOH declared an Ebola outbreak in the country on 30 January 2025 with the predominant case being in Kampala city. Since then, 12 confirmed and two doable cases had been registered. Of these, 10 were reported in Kampala City. The outbreak has unfold to Wakiso, Jinja, Mbale, Ntoroko, Fort Portal, and Kyegegwa. Ten of the 12 confirmed cases fill recovered after receiving supportive medications whereas two cases succumbed to the virus.
Kampala, with a stout urban inhabitants and complex mobility patterns, remains one of basically the most-at-distress areas in the country necessitating heightened response actions.
In her remarks, Effectively being minister Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero entreated the capital city leadership to fill the response in Kampala, since they completely understand the context, and dynamics extra than somebody else. She requested them to use their positions to attain out to the communities.
“Ending this outbreak will require leaders in Kampala to create obvious that all people is a professional about Ebola, the diagram it spreads and the diagram it is going to very effectively be averted,” said Dr Aceng. She also entreated leaders to remain vigilant in opposition to assorted public effectively being threats, including mpox.
The minister also emphasised prioritizing infection prevention and adjust measures especially in the effectively being facilities. The effectively being workers, she noticed, must constantly offer protection to themselves whether there would possibly perhaps be an epidemic or not.
Hon. Kabuye Kyofatogabye, the Minister of Whine for Kampala Capital City Authority and metropolitan affairs pledged effective leadership of the Ebola response in the city by the leaders. He entreated leaders at all ranges in the city to work carefully with their communities in response to the outbreak.
The WHO Representative, Dr Kasonde Mwinga, talking on behalf of companions, applauded the Authorities of Uganda for effectively main the Ebola response efforts up to now. Commendable actions consist of: quick declaration of the outbreak, like a flash interventions including a vaccination trial, and quality administration of cases main to their discharge among others.
“I beg all of the stakeholders to rally in the relief of these efforts to fill a single response, especially at a time when efficiencies are key in implementation of efforts. As effectively as, this strengthens the effectively being diagram that continues to be to help the inhabitants after the outbreak,” said Dr Mwinga.
The Ministry of Effectively being has embarked on a 42-day countdown to the pause of basically the most contemporary Ebola outbreak following the restoration and discharge of the closing confirmed case. In the course of this time, full of life surveillance, strengthening infection prevention and adjust, public awareness introduction and distress verbal replace, and vaccination of contacts of confirmed cases will proceed till the outbreak is declared over.
WHO continues to relief Uganda’s national and district-level preparedness and response efforts, guaranteeing a coordinated, multi-sectoral potential to pause the outbreak.
