Tanzania angered by Ebola ‘conspiracy’ and mistrust
A woman gets her temperature measured at an Ebola screening station as she enters the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Rwanda on July 16, 2019 in Goma. Rwanda has already started training doctors and nurses at the border posts with Tanzania. PHOTO | JOHN WESSELS | AFP
As regional governments move to enhance Ebola surveillance through screening of people at border crossings with Tanzania, the government in Dar es Salaam now says it “suspects there is a conspiracy at international level to spread negative information about Tanzania in the face of an ongoing conflict with the WHO over how a recent potential Ebola case in the country was dealt with.”
Kenya has deployed a mobile laboratory at the common Namanga border crossing with Tanzania and at the same time the Ministry of Health’s acting director general Dr Wekesa Masasabi saying there is no cause for alarm.
