DR Congo faces fresh Ebola risk after attacks on health centres

Members of UNICEF medical staff carry a dummy patient during an infection, prevention and control training in Juba, South Sudan.Health authorities in DR Congo warned Friday of a"serious" new Ebola outbreak after a medical centre at the heart of the epidemic was attacked.

Aid agency Doctors Without Borders temporarily suspended treatment in two centres in Butembo city and Katwa district, both in the northeast of the country, after they were struck by arson attacks on Wednesday and Sunday."Unidentified assailants set some of the compound's facilities and vehicles on fire," MSF said in a statement Thursday."The blazes were contained, but the teams were obliged to immediately cease patient care.

No staff or patients were harmed, but the carer of one patient died in the attack in Katwa, MSF said. "Both attacks were traumatic for patients, their relatives and staff who were inside the centres at the time," MSF said.

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