World Well being Group (WHO) Director-Normal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visits Evangelical Medical Middle (EMC)
The director-general of the World Well being Group stated on Monday that Uganda ought to rethink its choice to shut its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo because of the Ebola outbreak.
WHO Director-Normal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the feedback throughout a go to to an Ebola isolation ward at a hospital in Uganda’s capital Kampala.
In different remarks, Tedros praised the East African nation’s swift and competent response to Ebola.
however When requested by a Reuters reporter about Uganda’s choice to briefly shut its border with Congo late final month to limit the border, Citing the unfold of Ebola, he stated complete journey restrictions wouldn’t work, “so I hope they (Ugandan authorities) will rethink.”
The WHO has declared the outbreak of the uncommon Bundibugyo pressure of Ebola a public well being emergency of worldwide concern.
The epicenter was in Congo’s Ituri province, and Africa’s high public well being company introduced that 515 of the 544 complete circumstances of an infection in Congo had been confirmed.
Uganda has reported 19 confirmed Ebola circumstances, most of whom entered the nation from Congo.
