Kamwenge reactivates district health task force

By Hillary Abinsinguza

KAMWENGE - The Kamwenge district health department in collaboration with World Vision as an implementing partner has reactivated the district task force following the increase in disease outbreaks and other natural disasters.

The resumption of activities started with a two-day session of training for the district task force on public health emergency management preparedness and response that had lastly been done in 2022.

Aidah Tumuhimbise, the Kamwenge district health educator says disease outbreaks especially Ebola, Mpox and Measles have affected Kamwenge as a district in Bwizi Sub County.

He added that training the district task force will orient the members on the disease outbreaks and how best they can be prepared to handle them within communities.

The World Vision team led by Paul Onyango categorized most of the disease outbreaks to be prioritised as zoonotic with characteristics of viral hemorrhagic fevers including CCHF, EVD and RVF and that the most common ones in Uganda include; Ebola, Rift Valley fever, Crimean conjo hemorrhagic fever, Mpox, Anthrax, Marburg and Measles.

“The major problem affecting the patients’ correspondence to drugs is antimicrobial resistance where majority illiterate people in rural settings share human drugs with their livestock and after consuming the meat from similar animals their immunity resists towards the reaction to the drugs and which forced them to go for improved drugs with increased strength”; he said.

Namara Loy Batuuze, the deputy RDC Kamwenge district urged the district stakeholders to put the training’s intentions into practice if the training is to be efficient during its implementation in those trying moments of public health emergencies.