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A. SITUATION ANALYSIS
Description of the crisis
On January 30, 2025, the Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of Sudan Ebola Virus Disease in Kampala District, following confirmation by three national laboratories: the Central Public Health Laboratories, Uganda Virus Research Institute, and Makerere University Laboratories. The index case was a 32-year-old male nurse employed at Mulago National Referral Hospital. The patient presented with a five-day history of high fever, chest pain, and respiratory distress, which later progressed to unexplained bleeding from multiple body sites. The patient experienced multiple organ failure and subsequently succumbed to the disease at Mulago National Referral Hospital.
On February 19, the Ministry of Health announced that the last eight confirmed cases had been discharged from the Ebola treatment units in Mbale and Kampala, initiating a 42-day countdown to declare the country Ebola-free.
On March 1, 2025, the Ministry of Health reported a new case confirmed on February 27, 2025. The case involved a four-and-a-half-year-old child who died in the paediatric acute care unit of Mulago National Referral Hospital, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 10 and deaths to 2. This case was linked to two other probable cases that exhibited Ebola symptoms in Fort Portal town and were buried in Ntoroko District. Consequently, Ntoroko and Fort Portal City have been categorized as very high-risk districts.
Two additional cases linked to the new cluster have been confirmed, increasing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 12. Currently, the Uganda Red Cross Society, with support from this IFRC Emergency Appeal, is assisting the Ministry of Health's Sudan Ebola Virus Disease response initiatives in Kampala, Wakiso, Jinja City, Jinja District, Mbale City, Mbale District, Ntoroko, Fort Portal and Iganga. The areas of intervention include Coordination, Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE), Community-Based Surveillance (CBS), Case Management (including infection prevention and control, safe and dignified burials, and EMS), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (PSS), Community WASH, and Protection, Gender, and Inclusion (PGI)