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Posted: December 07 2007 at 6:51am |
MPs yesterday unanimously asked the government to immediately declare a State-of-emergency over the rapidly spreading Ebola epidemic and impose quarantine on already affected areas in western Uganda.
"We need to take radical measures if we are to save our people from this deadly virus," Theodore Ssekikubo, the MP for Rwemiyaga constituency in Ssembabule district, said. In the afternoon plenary session dominated by the Ebola debate, most MPs called on the government not to drag its feet when people are dying in the countryside. "Ebola is a serious disease and the government must declare all affected areas a no-go area. |
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