The Member of Parliament for Nakaseke south MP Paulson Kasana Lutamaguzi Semakula has demanded government to declare Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Nakaseke as an epidemic to seek the world health organization intervention. Lutamaguzi told parliament that this deadly disease has claimed lives people in Nakaseke and surrounding districts like Kiboga .He said that according to the World Health Organization guidelines where this disease is detected its declared an epidemic zone but government is adamant.

Nakaseke Area Mp Paulson Luttamaguzi

Reports show that the patients of this disease are in Nakaseke hospital where government established an isolation unit. Lutamaguzi said that the people in the area are worried that the disease was taken to the area through nets which were distributed to them by government. He asked government to intervene into this matter and sensitize the public on how to protect themselves from this disease.

The government chief whip Ruth Nakabirwa Sentamu said that will inform the Ministry of Health about the out break so as mass sensitization carried out .