(Machine translated to English) Today, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, accompanied by the presidential advisers on health, and WHO consultants based in the country, held an important meeting with the departments linked to the inter-ministerial management of the current epidemic of Marburg virus hemorrhagic fever.
The Minister of State for the Interior and Local Corporations, Minister of Educated Justice and Penitentiary Institutions, Minister of Agriculture, and a Representation of the Ministry of Transport have been present.
This ministry has seen fit to meet with the departments involved for the non-sanitary management of epidemiological situations of this type. It should be noted that the approach to any epidemic is achieved with great efficiency from intersectoriality, being in this sense a factor of good prognosis of containment; and that has been demonstrated during the more than two years of response to the COVID 19 pandemic.
In this sense, after an in-depth debate on the current epidemiological situation and taking into account the challenges imposed by this new epidemic due to the clinical characteristics of the disease, a joint approach is needed, and concrete provisions from the radius of action of each department finally.