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Kassanda, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kassanda district council on Tuesday approved a supplementary budget of 305 million Shillings for the fight against Ebola. The budget was passed and approved at a special council sitting chaired by Speaker Godfrey Katumba. The money will be used for surveillance, response to alerts, awareness …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA has intensified measures to respond to the Ebola outbreak in the city. Over the weekend, the Ministry of Health announced a rise in the number of infections within the city center. All these infections were contacts of previous Ebola victims who …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has confirmed nine cases of Ebola in the Greater Kampala region. This brings the total number of patients in the capital to 14 within the last 48 hours. Earlier, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said five cases had been isolated in …

Health Minister Aceng’s recipe for success or failure? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has the ability to effectively respond to its first Ebola virus outbreak in more than a decade and to curb its spread to other regions and neighbouring countries. That is the expressed view of the …

Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health and security officials in Kapchorwa district are hunting for an Ebola patient who escaped from Mubende hospital. Dr. Siraji Masai, the Kapchorwa District Health Officer says that the male patient aged 50, escaped from the hospital after his samples were collected on Tuesday, October …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Thursday gave envoys accredited to the country a guided tour of the Ebola treatment units in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, and the neighboring Entebbe city. Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said the envoys, including those from UN …

Mityana, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person has tested positive for Ebola in Manyi sub county, Mityana district. The female patient fell sick hardly a week after the death of her mother inside a shrine, who was later buried in Madudu sub county, Mubende district. The patient’s child also died …

Kagadi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has released 338 million shillings to the Kagadi district Ebola taskforce for response. George Gulyetonda, the Kagadi district communications officer told Uganda Radio Network in an interview on Wednesday, that the money will be used by the Ebola taskforce in risk …

Mitooma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mitooma district health department is in emergency mode following the death of a person in Bitereko sub-county, with suspected Ebola signs. They are also tracing another person who is alleged to have travelled to Kabira sub-county from Mubende on Monday, despite the lockdown. The Mitooma …

Mubende, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The police in Mubende are investigating circumstances under which a 36-year-old woman was on Monday allegedly shot and injured as security personnel enforced the lockdown restrictions in South Division, Mubende Municipality. On Saturday, President Museveni announced 21 days of lockdown in Mubende and Kassanda districts, …