09 March 2020 – Haut-Katanga Province outlines contingency plans for coronavirus fight

Type of Intervention: Executive Order
Sectors Involved: Local Government
Intervention Categories: Planning and strategy; Creation of or release of plans
Level of Jurisdiction: Regional
Lead People/Agency: Provincial Minister of Health, Doctor Joseph Sambi Bulanda. Step by step presentation of a contingency plan consisting of strengthening the detection and management capacity in order to prevent coronavirus disease. Peeling of a system made up of heat shields and protection kits will have to be reinforced with rapid detection kits that are already in the process of being delivered

Overview: Haut-Katanga strengthens health provisions in anticipation of coronavirus

The provincial Minister of Health, Doctor Joseph Sambi Bulanda presented, last weekend in the precincts of the governorate, the contingency plan for the fight against the coronavirus. This, in the presence of the Provincial Governor, Jacques Kyabula Katwe, members of the provincial government and donors mainly the mining operators of Haut-Katanga. During this conference, we discussed the step-by-step presentation of a contingency plan consisting in strengthening the detection and management capacity in order to prevent coronavirus disease. Note that the province had already implemented a prevention system at border crossings in the city of Lubumbashi since December 2019. This system made up of thermal screens and protection kits will have to be reinforced with rapid detection kits which are already in the process of being delivered. After fruitful discussions with donors who come from mining companies in the province, the latter have shown themselves available to assist the provincial government in funding this prevention and protection system.
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Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group