By Gilbert Akampa Kakurugu,
National
Uganda Red Cross Society is hosting the Cross border collaboration in Health and Ebola Virus Disease preparedness high level meeting.
The two days’ meeting is intended to develop a collective road map for cross border collaboration on epidemic preparedness, Identify technical tools and guidelines to facilitate peer to peer support, Develop a National society health technical working group to lead on cross border collaboration during epidemics.
There are occasional Ebola disease outbreaks in people, occurring primarily on the African continent.
Speaking to the journalists during the event at Speak Resort Munyonyo, Robert Kwesiga, the Secretary General of Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) says there is a need to put responsibilities to local societies and have rightful human resource to enable encounter any pandemic and epidemic outbreak that may occur in the country.
Dr Daniel Kyabayinze, the Director Health Services and also Public Health National Covid-19 Vaccination Commander in the Ministry of Health says that as government, they do have well structured systems that complement with collaborators to control outbreaks once they happen.
He says that they already have in place seven different pillars in which the ministry responds to the epidemics and pandemics once they outbreak in the country including community engagement. Write a brief story headline
