Hours after Elon Musk assured the cabinet members on Wednesday that the efforts made to contain the outbreak of Ebola in Uganda were not mistakenly canceled. “The Trump administration has completed at least four of the five -five decades to work in Ebola in that country.
The four contracts were canceled by a small part of the contract and the 10,000 contracts in the United States for International Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which the Trump administration ended on Wednesday.
But they were important: Since January, Uganda has witnessed a dangerous outbreak in Ebola, from which the country appears only. The contract funded the Ebola examination at airports and protection equipment for health workers, and helped prevent the transmission of survivors from the disease, according to a former USA official.
Mr. Musk Members of the Council of Ministers said The administration “has regained the prevention of Ebola immediately, and there was no interruption.” However, his statement was inaccurate, according to former US Agency for International Development, knowing the situation in Uganda. (The officials asked not to reveal their identity for fear of revenge.)
In theory, concessions allowed some businesses to continue to contain pathogens such as Ebola, Marburg and Mbux, as well as preparing for bird flu. But very little money has been delivered.
A few organizations that provide these financial reserve services have had to continue, and even less confidence that they would be compensated.
Their concerns may be justified. On Wednesday night, the President of the Supreme Court, John J. Roberts Junior, that the US Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not need to pay more than $ 1.5 billion to work that has already been completed.
The ongoing work was boycotted without these payments, unlike Mr. Musk’s claim.
At the airport at ENTEBIBE, Uganda, the Ebola show was temporarily stopping for more than two weeks, according to a former US Agency for International Development Agency. The organization, which would do this a few days ago, decided to resume work with its own money.
The group contract was terminated on Wednesday evening.
The White House refused to clarify Mr. Musk’s comments and direct inquiries to the man himself. Mr. Musk did not immediately respond to the comment.
There were other gaps. The first patient in Ebola went in the outbreak of the current innovation to six facilities before his death and was diagnosed, prompting the Ugandan government to request preventive equipment for exposed health workers.
The US International Development Agency stocks such equipment in a warehouse in Nairobi. However, the facility was managed by the World Health Organization, and the United States Agency for International Development was not allowed to communicate with the World Health Organization, not to mention pushing it to issue equipment.
After more than a week, awaiting permission to contact the World Health Organization, officials were suddenly requested to reach another solution. They eventually paid about $ 100,000 to buy protective equipment elsewhere.
“A lot for the effectiveness of cost,” a former official said. The contract has now ended with the alternative provider.
Even the concession was full of confusion. The Trump administration has requested details about the number of lives that each intervention will provide, and the United States Agency for International Development has woven to link simple resources such as hand antiseptic or risk communication messages for a specific number of reserved spirits.
The staff of the United States Agency for International Development has left a few people. The agency had more than 50 people dedicated to the outbreaks of the disease, as a result of paying Congress to enhance the epidemic.
This number was initially reduced by half, including some of the primary Ebola team, then on Sunday to only six. Those who fired a major expert of the institution included in the diagnosis of laboratories and the director of the Ebola response.
“I have no idea how six people manage four responses in the disease.” “It is complicated at the best time when you are a fully employee.”