KAMPALA, Aug 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A nine-year-old girl who tested positive for Ebola in Uganda after travelling from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo has died, a Ugandan health official said.
“She passed on at around 0800 this morning (Friday),” said Yusuf Baseka,
health director in Kasese, a district in southwestern Uganda along the border with DR Congo.
The child, who is of Congolese origin, was diagnosed after exhibiting
symptoms at a border crossing in Kasese district on Wednesday.
She was subsequently isolated and transferred to an Ebola treatment unit.
Her body would be repatriated to DR Congo, Dr Baseka said.
The girl is the fourth victim diagnosed with Ebola in Uganda to have died
from the haemorrhagic fever.
In June, three members of a single family tested positive for Ebola in
Uganda after entering from DR Congo. Two died in Uganda, while the third
succumbed to the disease after returning to DR Congo.
Uganda has been on high alert since the start of an Ebola outbreak in
neighbouring DR Congo in August 2018.
Health officials in DR Congo said Friday that the death toll from that
epidemic had crossed 2,000 people. — NNN-AGENCIES