Ebola: six recover as three positive patients flee in Oicha
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mediacongo
Six Ebola patients have left Oicha General Referral Hospital after recovering, where 71 confirmed cases and 38 deaths have been recorded, Dr Kasereka Nzala Esaï says. Three people who tested positive are reportedly on the run in the community, complicating the health response in North Kivu.
Six patients who recovered from Ebola virus disease left Oicha General Referral Hospital in North Kivu province on Saturday 24 October. The survivors include three women and three men, among them a member of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a laboratory technician and a doctor, according to Mediacongo.
Dr Kasereka Nzala Esaï, the hospital’s medical director and coordinator of the response in the Oicha health zone, said that 71 confirmed cases had been recorded there, including 38 deaths. He also warned that three people who tested positive had fled into the community, calling on residents to cooperate with health teams to locate them and limit transmission.
The situation in Oicha comes as two treatment centres remain closed in Alimbongo, North Kivu province, according to information published on 24 October. Two centres remain closed in Alimbongo, while response workers have begun a strike in Nia-Nia to demand three months of unpaid wages. Response workers’ strike in Nia-Nia
