Workers assemble beds to be used at the Ebola treatment isolation unit at Mubende hospital in Uganda on September 24, 2022. Ebola was declared over in Uganda on January 11, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
Uganda officials will now focus on building a robust health system with increased surveillance to detect and manage future epidemics early. This is after the World Health Organisation announced the country was Ebola free after going 42 days without recording a new case of the disease and having no patients in treatment centres or active contacts under monitoring.
The 42 days are two incubation cycles of the virus.
