On 25th March, 2023, the Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng with other officials from the Ministry visited Mutukula border to assess the preparednesss of Ugandan health workers in handling Marburg cases after the neighbors of Tanzania declared the outbreak in Bukoba district, Kagera region. The worry was about the porous borders in Mutukula and other parts of Rakai district yet the outbreak was confirmed in an area which is just 84km away from our Mutukula border.