Uganda has discharged the last eight patients who were recovering from an Ebola outbreak declared last month, health authorities reported on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization described the recoveries as a milestone and reflected Uganda’s speedy response to the outbreak.
Reports indicate that the Ebola patients were treated at the main referral facility in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
The facility reportedly counts one death from the latest outbreak being a male nurse who died the day before the outbreak was declared in Kampala on Jan. 30. His relatives were among those later hospitalized with Ebola.
Ugandan officials documented at least 265 contacts from the initial infection. with at over 90 of them have completed a period of quarantine during which they were monitored for signs of Ebola, Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng told reporters in Kampala.
