[FILE] A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear, walks before entering the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit at the ALIMA Ebola treatment centre in Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, March 30, 2019. Picture taken March 30, 2019.REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo – RC1D7EB84D60
The head of the UN health agency Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is in DRC reviewing the Ebola response, said he accepted the committee’s advice. Friday’s emergency committee meeting was prompted by confirmation this week of Ebola deaths in a western Uganda region that borders DRC.The WHO panel has used the label “public health emergency of international concern” only four times previously.
The head of the committee, Preben Aavitsland, told reporters in Geneva that current Ebola crisis was “an extraordinary event, with risk of international spread, the ongoing response would not be enhanced” by an emergency declaration.The Uganda cases stem from a Congolese woman, married to a Ugandan, who travelled with her mother, three children and their nanny to DRC to care for her ill father, who later died of Ebola.
His three-year-old brother was also confirmed to have Ebola, as was their grandmother, who died late Wednesday. But chronic violence and militia activity in the affected eastern DRC provinces as well as hostility to medical teams among some in the region have hampered the response.
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