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Ebola centres in Butembo and Katwa overwhelmed in DR Congo

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Ebola centres in Butembo and Katwa overwhelmed in DR Congo

Médecins Sans Frontières warns that Ebola treatment centres in Butembo and Katwa, in North Kivu in DR Congo, are overwhelmed, with patients being treated in unsuitable facilities or returning to their communities. The NGO also denounces a lack of humanitarian actors and resources, according to MSF.

Ebola treatment centres in Butembo and Katwa, in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), are overwhelmed as the virus continues to spread, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. With no beds available, some patients are being treated in unsuitable facilities, while others are returning to their communities, according to the medical organisation.

Transmission is slowing in Ituri, but the situation remains worrying in North Kivu. MSF denounces the lack of humanitarian actors and resources to respond to the spread of the epidemic. Stéphanie Hofmann, MSF’s Ebola project manager in Butembo, says it would be dangerous to consider the epidemic under control. The UN has also called for humanitarian access to North Kivu, where the Ebola epidemic is spreading.

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