Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Faces 'Catastrophic Collision' of Conflict and Ebola Outbreak, WHO Warns
WHO says 10 confirmed Ebola deaths and 220 suspected deaths since mid-May as fighting blocks access for health workers.
- On Wednesday, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged warring parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo to declare an immediate ceasefire, allowing health teams safe access to combat a spreading Ebola outbreak.
- Eastern DRC's ongoing conflict has plagued the region for three decades, severely hindering containment efforts as the rare, untreatable Bundibugyo strain of Ebola drives mass displacement and disrupts critical supply routes for health workers.
- The WHO recorded more than 900 suspected cases, 105 confirmed cases, and 10 confirmed deaths in the DRC as of Wednesday, while Uganda reported seven confirmed cases and one death.
- While WHO teams remain on the ground to provide supportive care, Tedros insisted that stopping transmission depends entirely on humanitarian access, warning that workers cannot build community trust while bombs are falling.
- Tedros emphasized that "there is much we can do together to prevent the spread of this virus and save lives" by working with local partners, despite no approved vaccines or treatments for the Bundibugyo strain.
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According to WHO Director Tedros, the difficult security situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is the biggest challenge in the fight against the Ebola virus.
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XinhuaWHO chief says Ebola outbreak in DR Congo complicated by conflict, insecurity
Kinshasa: The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was “very complex,” with conflict, insecurity, displacement, food shortages and community mistrust complicating efforts to contain the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. Speaking to reporters on late Thursday at the airport upon arriving in the DRC capital of Kinshasa, Tedros said he had come to show affected communi…
Congo-Kinshasa: DR Congo Faces 'Catastrophic Collision' of Conflict and Ebola Outbreak, WHO Warns
The World Health Organization chief warned on Wednesday that conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was dramatically complicating efforts to rein in a deadly Ebola outbreak, and urged an immediate ceasefire.
Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo Collides With Conflict and Hunger, Who Warns
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a 'catastrophic collision of disease and conflict' as a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak outpaces containment efforts in a region already battered by armed violence, mass ...
WHO chief calls for ceasefire in DRC as Ebola rages
Dr Tedros Ituri, DRC | HEALTH POLICY WATCH | The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Director General has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern DRC to enable officials to address the outbreak of a particularly deadly strain of Ebola, warning that stopping transmission “depends entirely on humanitarian access”. The DRC’s Ituri province, the heart of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus outbreak, is facing “a catastrophic collision of disease and c…
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