Ugandan medics now tackling Ebola say they lack supplies
Posted June 15, 2019 7:00 am
In this photo taken Thursday, June 13, 2019, Pedson Buthalha, the administrator of the hospital where the first cross-border Ebola victim was isolated, speaks to The Associated Press in the town of Bwera, near the border with Congo, in western Uganda. Medical workers leading Uganda's effort against the Ebola outbreak are already alleging limited support from the government in the days since the country's first cases of the deadly virus were confirmed. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
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Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, right, has his temperature taken as he arrives at Ruhenda airport in Butembo, to visit operations aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola and treating its victims, in eastern Congo Saturday, June 15, 2019. The World Health Organization on Friday said the Ebola outbreak is an "extraordinary event" of deep concern but does not yet merit being declared a global emergency, a declaration that typically triggers more funding, resources and political attention. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)
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Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrives by helicopter at Ruhenda airport in Butembo, to visit operations aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola and treating its victims, in eastern Congo Saturday, June 15, 2019. The World Health Organization on Friday said the Ebola outbreak is an "extraordinary event" of deep concern but does not yet merit being declared a global emergency, a declaration that typically triggers more funding, resources and political attention. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)
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Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, center-right, arrives at Ruhenda airport in Butembo, to visit operations aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola and treating its victims, in eastern Congo Saturday, June 15, 2019. The World Health Organization on Friday said the Ebola outbreak is an "extraordinary event" of deep concern but does not yet merit being declared a global emergency, a declaration that typically triggers more funding, resources and political attention. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro)
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People coming from Congo have their temperature measured to screen for symptoms of Ebola, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
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Women coming from Congo wash their hands with chlorinated water to prevent the spread of infection, at the Mpondwe border crossing with Congo, in western Uganda Friday, June 14, 2019. In Uganda, health workers had long prepared in case the Ebola virus got past the screening conducted at border posts with Congo and earlier this week it did, when a family exposed to Ebola while visiting Congo returned home on an unguarded footpath. (AP Photo/Ronald Kabuubi)
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