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Samaritan’s Purse Sets up Treatment Centers Amid Ebola Outbreak
Each emergency field hospital has 40 beds and includes hygiene training, prevention education and handwashing stations as Ebola cases rise in Ituri Province.
- SamaritansPurse established two Ebola Treatment Centers in Bunia and Nyankunde, Democratic Republic, with the Bunia facility opening yesterday to provide hands-on care for patients.
- Drawing on past experience, SamaritansPurse treated more than 600 patients in the Congo during 2018 and provided hygiene training to more than 1.6 million people in Liberia in 2014.
- Specially outfitted field hospitals feature 40 patient beds each in Ituri Province, where nearly 90% of confirmed cases are located; teams airlifted tons of protective equipment to safeguard healthcare providers.
- The organization deployed 65 disaster assistance response team members conducting hygiene training and installing handwashing stations, while the Nyankunde site opens Monday morning to provide infectious disease treatment capacity.
- "Ebola is an extremely dangerous virus, and the case numbers keep climbing," CEO Franklin Graham said, as SamaritansPurse works in more than 100 countries providing aid to disaster and disease victims.
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SAMARITAN'S PURSE EBOLA TREATMENT CENTERS OPEN IN THE EPICENTER OF THE DEADLY OUTBREAK
BOONE, N.C., June 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Samaritan's Purse has established two Ebola Treatment Centers in Bunia and Nyankunde, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to care for patients suffering from the deadly Ebola virus. These facilities are specially outfitted emergency…
·Charleston, United States
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