By RFIPalled on 23-09-2019editinged on 23-09-2019 at 15:00

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières is calling for the creation of an independent committee to coordinate Ebola vaccination. The NGO denounces the opacity of the management of vaccine stocks by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The organization Médecins sans Frontières is pushing against the management of the first Ebola vaccine by the World Health Organization, accused of going it alone. She denounced the " extreme control " imposed by the WHO on the vaccination sector. MSF, which notes that the death rate is still very high, believes that " one of the major problems " they face is the actual rationing of the vaccine by the WHO today.

" We have a major disagreement with the WHO, particularly on vaccination in the DRC," explains Isabelle Defourny, MSF's director of operations. We are facing a continuing epidemic, which has already made 3,000 patients, of whom 2,000 have died. So, we are facing extremely high mortality, 67% mortality. And this, despite the existence of effective treatments and vaccines. This is the observation. For the moment, it's not a success story, even though we know it's a long and complicated fight, of course, the fight against Ebola. And concerning the vaccine, we think that there is a need for a real change because it is possible today to double the number of people vaccinated. "

MSF therefore calls for the establishment of an international coordinating committee independent of the vaccine. " It has been months and months since we asked them to have a transparent debate and to be able to work with them to solve this problem, which is at a too slow pace of vaccination. And the creation of an independent international committee would be a very good thing to succeed to deliver to more people this vaccine which seems extremely effective, "adds Isabelle Defourny.

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