DR Congo: Residents Burn Ebola Treatment Center as Anger Grows
The attack underscores growing mistrust of safe-burial rules as health workers struggle to contain a outbreak that has killed 139 people, WHO said.
- On Thursday, protesters set fire to an Ebola treatment center in Rwampara, Congo, after authorities prevented them from retrieving the body of a local man who died from the virus.
- Strict health protocols aimed at curbing contagion clash with local burial customs, a tension Deputy Senior Commissioner Jean Claude Mukendi acknowledged when he noted youths did not understand burial regulations.
- Six patients receiving treatment from the Alliance for International Medical Action were safely evacuated during the attack, while authorities report 148 suspected deaths and nearly 600 suspected cases across the region.
- Democratic Republic of Congo spokesperson Patrick Muyaya condemned the attack, warning that misinformation fuels mistrust, as confirmed cases have now reached neighboring Uganda.
- The World Health Organization has declared the growing crisis a public health emergency of international concern, identifying the Bundibugyo virus as the pathogen driving the outbreak.
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An angry mob has attacked a hospital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak, after authorities refused to allow the family of a young man who died of suspected Ebola to take his body home for burial. Isolation tents were set on fire during the riots and police fired warning shots to disperse the crowd, the BBC reported. The attack took place at Rwampara General Hospital, near the city of Bunia in Ituri provi…
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A group of angry protesters set fire to several hospital tents at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after family and friends of a young man allegedly killed by the virus were prevented from taking his body to bury him.Keep reading....
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, protesters set fire to an Ebola clinic. The protesters were angry because they were not allowed to take the body of a dead man out of the hospital.
Crowd Burns Ebola Treatment Center in Congo Amid Dispute Over Body
People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on May 21 after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, witnesses and police said. “The police intervened to try to calm the situation, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful,” Alexis Burata, a local student who said he was in the area, told The Associated Press. “The young people ended up setting fire to the center. That’s the s…
The UN has released $60 million to support efforts to contain the epidemic in the country.
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