DRC: disaster victims still waiting for a solution in Kibati

Queues of displaced people awaiting food aid on May 28, 2021 in eastern DRC after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano.

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The Head of State Félix Tshisekedi visits Kibati, a locality about twenty kilometers from Goma.

People displaced by the eruption, those who have not yet been able to return home, are awaiting the completion of a reception site that is a little more suitable.

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Patient Ligodi

More than 400 households have already settled in classrooms of a school near the site that will accommodate the victims.

These displaced people come from the areas at the foot

of Nyiragongo

.

Need for drinking water and food

They lack almost everything.

Among them are children and pregnant women.

They arrived three weeks ago.

They are impatiently waiting to be taken care of, both by aid workers and the government.

Deprived, they ask for drinking water, food and a little more comfortable shelters.

These are the problems that the authorities want to solve, because next door, a more viable site will be quickly set up.

But long before, a mobile hospital was deployed.

It is equipped with medicines, materials and water.

He will take care of first aid, especially for respiratory diseases and malaria.

This hospital has a capacity of twenty beds and it will be able to operate from this afternoon.

But alongside this medical device, the urgency is to quickly complete the reception site for the displaced.

►Also listen: Report - Eruption of Nyiragongo in DRC: Buhene, a village washed away by lava

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