WHO’s latest toll for the outbreak declared in eastern DRC last August came as the agency’s International Health Regulations emergency committee was meeting in Geneva.
As of April 9, nearly 1,200 cases of the virus have been reported in the affected provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, with 751 people dead, the WHO said. Poor security owing to the presence of armed groups, coupled with resistance of some communities to seeking treatment, has hampered the fight to stem the spread of the disease.
When health workers are unable to get to communities because of unrest, “no people are being vaccinated, there is no treatment people are staying at home and infecting other people.”
The government does not have a clear plan and political will to tackle the Ebola epidemic with a growing number of militias groups causing a permanent security threat in the region all the armed groups and government officials are benefitting minerals from the instability
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