Ebola in Congo: WHO: Too Few Beds for Ebola Patients in Congo
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The virus has never spread so quickly: in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than 6600 people have been infected with Ebola – the number is growing every day, the dark figure is high.
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Former Ebola patients are now helping as nurses, but the WHO warns: more nurses and treatment places are urgently needed to contain the outbreak.
The response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the second worst in history since the discovery of this disease in 1976, requires 1,600 hospital beds and 5,000 additional health workers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.
The number of beds for Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is far from sufficient. More than twice as many reception places are needed for patients – and above all, they have to be built outside the originally affected province of Ituri, reports the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday. Currently there are 59 treatment centres [...]
The number of beds for Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is far from sufficient. More than twice as many reception places are needed for patients - and above all, they have to be built outside the originally affected province of Ituri, reports the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday. Currently there are 59 treatment centers with 1,400 beds in the second largest country in Africa after area.
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