Russia to deliver mobile laboratories to Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, October 2, 2024 (FBC) – The Russian Federation will mobile laboratories to Ethiopia by the end of the year, with a view to support the efforts to strengthen nation’s health system, deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova said.

“The geographical scope of Russian mobile laboratories is expanding. This year they have been deployed in Burundi and Uganda, and by the end of the year Russian laboratories will be delivered to the Republic of Congo and Ethiopia,” Tatiana Golikova said at the third International training exercise for mobile rapid response laboratories.

She noted that following the increase in mpox cases and a public health emergency of international concern declared by the WHO, Russia has already transferred several thousand of its tests to CIS and African countries. Moreover, researches have been conducted in Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.

Sputnik Africa quoted the deputy prime minister as saying: “Today, Russian specialists work with foreign colleagues in 4 infectious disease research centers established in the last 7 years – in Guinea, Vietnam, Venezuela and Burundi. We fruitfully cooperate in 5 projects with our closest neighbors in the Commonwealth of Independent States, with whom we share a common epidemiological space.”