The decision was made after unknown assailants burned tents and other equipment Wednesday at the treatment centre in the eastern city of Butembo. Assailants also set fire Sunday to another eastern Congo clinic that Doctors Without Borders operates in Katwa, killing one person and injuring another.“In light of these two violent incidents, we have no choice but to suspend our activities until further notice,” said Hugues Robert, the group's emergency desk manager.
The Health Ministry said 32 of the 38 people being treated for suspected cases of Ebola fled during Wednesday's attack, while eight of the 12 patients with confirmed cases remained in bed. Patients who have been located since the violence were transferred temporarily to another treatment centre. The humanitarian organization Mercy Corps has personnel in Congo's North Kivu working on infection prevention and control. The group's Congo director, Jean-Philippe Marcoux, called the recent clinic attacks “abhorrent,” but said he thinks “it would be too easy to blame them on insecurity and violent groups within communities.”
The Ebola outbreak declared in August is the second-largest in terms of cases and deaths behind the one in West Africa that killed more than 11,300 people during 2014-2016.
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