Ebola Outbreak Congo: WHO Chief Visits Epicentre as Virus Spreads Faster than Response
MSF said the outbreak is spreading faster than the response as aid arrives and health workers push for more testing and safer burials.
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WHO chief visits Ebola-ravaged Bunia
BUNIA, Congo -- The head of the World Health Organization on Saturday visited eastern Congo's Bunia, a city at the heart of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola, where the virus is spreading faster than the response despite better-organized health facilities and new aid arrivals.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has arrived in the Congolese province of Ituri, the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak. Medical aid is getting underway, but at the same time, the virus is spreading rapidly. Tedros has scheduled meetings in Ituri with local authorities and aid organizations to discuss combating the disease. According to him, local communities must play a central role. "The communities…
The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, arrived this Saturday in the city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which became the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak, where the virus still exceeds the response capacity, despite improved health facilities and the arrival of international aid.Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Bunia, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he will visit…
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