GENEVA: Efforts to curb the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst Ebola outbreak are stumbling, medical charity MSF warned Thursday, blaming the role o...
: Efforts to curb the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst Ebola outbreak are stumbling, medical charity MSF warned Thursday, blaming the role of the security forces in the response and their “toxic” relations with local communities.
“That means that we have not reached them and they have not sought our care,“ MSF chief Joanne Liu told reporters in Geneva.It has claimed 561 lives out of 894 recorded cases, according the latest DRC health ministry figures.Liu warned that growing reliance on the security services to bring people to treatment centres was spurring hostility.
It also said repairs would begin on the centre in Katwa, North Kivu, which was set ablaze on the night of Feb 24. “Using police to force people into complying with health measures is not only unethical. It is totally counterproductive,“ she said.
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