Deadly attacks on health workers in Ebola-hit areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including one at the weekend that left two dead, show that combatting the disease outbreak will require far greater international support, UN emergency relief chief Mark Lowcock has said.
Since the latest Ebola outbreak was officially declared in the east of the country last August, there have been more than 2,400 confirmed and probable cases, and 1,647 deaths, according to latest data from the country’s authorities.
Almost 200 health facilities and workers have been attacked since January, with seven killed in the violence to date.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said the two workers who died on the weekend were “murdered in their home”
(UNI)
