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Tanzania convened the local representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) after the United Nations health agency accused the government of failing to release detailed information on suspected cases of Ebola.
Hassan Abbasi, a spokesman for the Tanzanian government, said on Twitter on Tuesday that "the government has convened the representative of the World Health Organization in the country to get detailed information from the agency on the information circulating in the media ".
In a sharp statement of reprimand, the WHO said in a statement late Saturday that it had been informed on 10 September of the death of a patient in Dar-es-Salaam and that it had informally been informed the next day that its tester was positive to Ebola. The woman died on September 8th.
"The identified contacts of the deceased would have been informally quarantined in different sites of the country," the statement said.
The WHO has said informally that Tanzania would have two other possible cases of Ebola. One had been tested negative and there was no information on the other.
In spite of several requests, "the clinical data, the results of the investigations, the possible contacts and the potential laboratory tests carried out … have not been communicated to the WHO", announced Saturday the 39, UN agency.
"The limited official information available from the Tanzanian authorities is a challenge," he said.
On September 14, the Tanzanian government officially informed WHO that his country had no confirmed or suspected cases of Ebola.
It did not directly address the death of the woman and did not provide additional information.
East and Central African authorities are on alert for possible outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a 13-month epidemic has killed more than 2 000 people.
WHO has been sharply criticized by experts during West AfricaThe 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak, which killed more than 11,300 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, for not acting faster to contain the epidemic, which remains the worst in the world.
SOURCE:
Al Jazeera and news agencies
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