Absence of vaccines, shortage of testing kits, among other gaps, threaten to hamstrung Uganda’s preparations to counter the mpox outbreak, even as the Ministry of Health yesterday moved to allay fears of a possible flare up as the disease ravages the neighbouring DR Congo.
Dr Daniel Kyabayinze, the director of public health at the Ministry of Health, yesterday said the country started preparations to respond to a possible outbreak two years ago when the outbreak was declared in the DR Congo.
The East African newspaper reported on Wednesday that the disease had been reported in almost every corner of the DR Congo, making Uganda’s neighbour to the west, the epicentre of the outbreak.
The epidemiological report presented by the DR Congo’s minister for Public Health, Dr Roger Kamba, shows “1,372 new suspected cases, 206 confirmed cases and 35 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 610 since the start of the year.”
The number of deaths is already higher than in 2023, when 600 people died from the disease.
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