Via Radio Okapi: Ituri: Governor inaugurates Ebola Treatment Center in Makayanga. The Google translation:
The governor of Ituri, Pacifique Keta inaugurated Thursday, January 17, 2019 a large Ebola virus treatment center in Makayanga, located 85 kilometers south of Bunia in the chiefdom of Basili.
This center is for the care of patients from the region of Komanda-Bwanasura where the case of Ebola is confirmed. These patients will no longer be transferred to Beni in North Kivu.
This center, built with funding from the Samaritan's Purse International Organization in partnership with WHO, is the third in Ituri after Bunia and Tshomia General Hospital on Lake Albert.
Thirty patients out of 49 registered cases have already died of Ebola virus in 4 health zones of Ituri, since the official declaration of this epidemic in August 2018.
