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The UN chief of humanitarian aid on Monday urged the international community to support the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the epidemic claimed 621 lives.
"We do not think the world is paying enough attention to Ebola," UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowbad told reporters, with a turnover of US $ 326 million. dollar call to fight the deadly disease. Lowbad said the call was intended to address the urgent humanitarian needs of the DRC.
He has just returned from a trip to Africa with Henrietta Fore, head of the United Nations Children's Fund, to examine the Ebola outbreak, the second-worst epidemic of hemorrhagic fever. at the origin of the 2014-2016 epidemic, which killed more than 11,000 people West Africa.
Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told reporters shortly after Fore-Lowbad's presentation that the World Health Organization had now documented more than 1,000 cases in the north of the country. the DRC since the declaration of the outbreak in August 2018., 1,009 confirmed and probable cases and 621 deaths have been recorded in North Kivu and Ituri (provinces), "said Dujarric. "More than 300 patients were released after treatment."
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