Rwanda says no Ebola patient crossed into its territory
A woman gets her tem
Rwanda on Thursday said there is no Ebola case in the country after reports that a fishmonger who died of the virus this week may have carried the disease into the country.
“There is no Ebola in Rwanda as far as we are concerned. We have a strong surveillance system in place that helps us to prevent its entry,” Malic Kayumba, Head of Communications at Rwanda Biomedical Centre told The EastAfrican.
“We investigate every day and have a system that informs us of all we need to know, and such news would be coming from us. If there was entry of a suspected Ebola victim we would have known,” added Kayumba.
Mr Kayumba was reacting to reports by the Word Health Organisation that the fishmonger might have crossed into Rwanda’s Gisenyi town, which borders DR Congo.
The woman is reported to have vomited at a market in Mpondwe on the Ugandan border last Thursday before returning to DR Congo and dying from the virus.
“Upon leaving Uganda, she is suspected to have gone to Goma in DRC and later to Gisenyi in Rwanda with unknown business interests. Later, she is believed to have sought care in a private clinic in Beni. The local community learnt about her death two days ago and still attributes it to miscarriage or witchcraft, ” the WHO said on Wednesday.
