By RFPosted on 16-08-2019Modified 17-08-2019 at 08:52

This is a woman and her young child. According to the governor of South Kivu, the mother died. The infant was taken care of by the medical team.

A woman and her young child were affected by Ebola haemorrhagic fever. This happened in Mwenga, 500 kilometers from Bukavu, in South Kivu, in the east of the country. This is the first time this region has faced the disease, since the beginning of an epidemic this hemorrhagic fever, a year ago, in North Kivu and Iturie, neighbors.

According to the governor of the region, the mother died. The infant was taken care of by the medical team. All people who have been in contact with both cases are, according to the governor, in the process of identification for vaccination.

The concern of the populations

The residents say they are very concerned and testify at the microphone of our correspondent as Esther, mother of family or Dieudonné Sango, civil society actor who emphasizes that back to school aggravates the risk of contamination.

"I propose that whenever there is a case reported in a site, isolate this site: the authorities must take effective measures to protect the population"

17-08-2019 - By RFI

Robert Ntibonera, protection officer of the NGO Save Child , which specializes in child protection, is surprised that the authorities did not stop these two people before they arrived in South Kivu. worried about the arrival of this disease in a province as populous.

It is very disturbing that there is a case of Ebola in South Kivu. People live in an exaggerated promiscuity. A case of Ebola in Bukavu would be a great desolation. We are asking them to observe the rules of hygiene, simple rules: people are asked to wash their hands with soap, or with ashes ...

Robert Ntibonera

16-08-2019 - By Léa-Lisa Westerhoff

Declared 1 August 2018, the epidemic of haemorrhagic fever, which is transmitted by direct and close human contacts and whose case-fatality rate is very high, has long been confined to rural areas of North Kivu, mainly Beni and Butembo, and in neighboring Ituri. Two cases have nonetheless been recorded in neighboring Uganda.

In early August, a woman close to a gold miner who died a few days earlier in Goma, neighboring North Kivu Province, was quarantined with fourteen other relatives. The tests performed on these fifteen suspected cases were subsequently negative. The DRC is fighting the tenth Ebola outbreak on its soil since the outbreak of the disease in 1976.

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