President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has ordered traditional healers to stop treating patients during the existing Ebola outbreak.           

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has ordered traditional healers to stop treating patients during the existing Ebola outbreak, which has already claimed the lives of 19 individuals.

Additionally, the president instructed security personnel to detain anyone who refuses to enter isolation after being suspected of harboring the virus.

He instructed herbalists and traditional healers not to treat those who were thought to be sick with the viral hemorrhagic fever in a televised address to the nation, during which he shifted to the widely spoken Luganda language to address them directly.

It follows the death of a 45-year-old-man who was listed by health teams as having been exposed to the Ebola virus.

The man, who passed away in a hospital in Kampala, the capital, had left his community in the outbreak’s epicenter’s Mubende area.

According to the authorities, He went elsewhere for treatment before showing up at the Kampala hospital, where he later passed away. Some of the man’s relatives have been quarantined, while others have fled the country. They were pushed by the president to go to the hospital.

Mr. Museveni’s claim that there are presently no confirmed Ebola cases in Kampala, he advised the public to remain watchful and reaffirmed his confidence in medical professionals to put an end to the outbreak.

Subsequently, Uganda’s confirmed of the outbreak of the Sudanese form of Ebola, which has since expanded to five districts, over a month has passed.

So far, 54 instances have been confirmed. Twenty people have recovered, including five medical professionals.