Following the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, African health ministers attended a high-level meeting called on two regional health organizations to establish an Africa Ebola coordination task force.
They claimed that this would manage the continent’s preparedness and reaction to the present outbreak and other epidemics.
19 people, including four healthcare workers, have died in Uganda as a result of the most recent Ebola outbreak. Five districts have now been affected by the virus.
Ahmed Ogwell, the acting head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control, claims that Africa needs to stop asking for aid from abroad since it can handle pandemics on its own.
He addressed the crowd in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, “This is not the first epidemic of the Sudan strain of Ebola virus here in Africa and particularly here in Uganda.”
“As Africa, we must now act differently, realizing that we will be mostly on our own. But being aware of our isolation must spur us on to accomplish things on our own while still being supported by others, he continued.
A small sample of people who had contact with Ebola patients will be used to test for two vaccinations.
According to the African CDC, there are now 11 separate public health epidemics on the continent. They are Lassa fever, measles, yellow fever, hepatitis E, cholera, cholera, flooding, influenza, Lassa fever, and the Crimean – Congo hemorrhagic fever.
