Via Radio Moto Butembo-Beni: Ebola: Resistance against retaliation team reported in Kalunguta. The Google translation, lightly edited:
The population of some villages in the Kalunguta Health Zone is at risk of death. The alert was made this Sunday, January 27, 2019 by the coordinator of the response team in Butembo and vicinity.
According to him, the population of these villages resisted the efforts of the response team that wanted to recover two confirmed Ebola patients for their medical care at the Ebola Treatment Center in Butembo.
Confiding this Sunday, January 27, 2019 to the press of the anti-Ebola service, Dr. Christophe SHAKO calls the population and armed groups to facilitate the extraction of these patients and the decontamination of their homes.
In addition, the epidemiological situation of 26 January 2019 in Butembo Subcoordination reports a confirmed case of Ebola in Muchanga, health area of Katwa Health Zone. Four deaths were also recorded at the CTE. These deaths are related to late hospitalization at the CTE, reports a press release from the Ebola response team.
In addition, 14 non Ebola cases were released from CTE Butembo last Friday. The same document concludes that 15% of health facilities and 30% of households remain to be decontaminated.
Cases of resistance among the population, particularly in the health areas of Mukuna, Wayene, Muchanga, Makangala in Katwa Health Zone and in other areas of the health zone of Kalunguta, have been condemned in the same document.
