Via Radio Moto Butembo-Beni: BUTEMBO: Civil society calls on MPs to engage in Ebola response. The Google translation:
The urban coordination of Butembo's civil society organized this Saturday, March 30, 2019 an "Ebola truth dialogue" for the candidate deputies to the provincial and national legislatures. Selected setting, the SYDIP meeting room. Among the objectives of this dialogue: to trigger an integrative process of opinion of the political actors for a participative, inclusive and representative response in Butembo city.
On behalf of the president of this citizen structure, Mr. CATHY FURAHA, third vice president of the active forces, outlined the objectives of this exchange. Among which trigger an integrative process of opinion of the political operators in favor of the response.
"The first objective is to trigger an inclusive process of opinion of political actors for a participatory, inclusive and representative response in Butembo town. The second objective of our dialogue is to rethink through constructive criticism of the attitudes and behaviors of political actors and agents in the response to end the Ebola epidemic. The third objective is to facilitate local community response operations through community engagement," she said.
A heated debate on Ebola and a set of questions took place. To eradicate the spread of Ebola in the region, some recommendations were made by the audience. This is for example the commitment of stakeholders to eradicate this epidemic.
"All stakeholders are making community commitments to raise awareness of the population to join the response in observing preventative measures and fighting Ebola," said one participant.
Note that in their last statement, the forces of North Kivu advised the population to work with the response teams.
