The Ebola outbreak has been declared on 20 September. Here are the latest figures provided by the Ministry of Health as of 26th of September: 43 cases have been reported (24 confirmed and 19 probable cases), 23 people have died (5 confirmed deaths and 18 probable deaths).
As of 28th of September, MSF has set up a 36 beds Ebola treatment unit at the Mubende hospital, for suspect and confirmed cases. MSF will start extending this unit by adding 20 to 40 new beds.
In addition, in Madudu – which is the epicenter of the outbreak - MSF started setting up a 35 beds treatment unit. All these units have been put in place by MSF and will be managed by the Ministry of Health. MSF has expressed his availability to the MoH in the following areas : support to the case management at the Mubende regional referral hospital; decentralized case management in the affected sub-county of Madudu; support to laboratory capacities; community activities and psychosocial support in collaboration with WHO and MoH teams, including awareness, mobilization, education of patients in hospitals and in the community; psychosocial and psychological support; reinforcement of epidemiology capacities including the implementation of data collection tools and contact tracing in collaboration with WHO and the MoH.