Via mediacongo.net: Ebola fight: Felix Tshisekedi creates a multisectoral and collegiate steering committee. The Google translation:
President Félix-Antoine decided on Saturday (April 27th) to create a collegial and multisectoral steering committee to fight against the Ebola virus disease.
"The management of the epidemic is now collegial and multisectoral. A steering committee of response was created," indicates the Presidency of the Republic.
Chaired by the Prime Minister, this committee will have the involvement of the Presidency of the Republic, the Ministries of Defense, the Interior, the Budget, Finance and Humanitarian Affairs and the Director General of INRB, Dr Jean-Jacques Muyembe.
According to the Presidency, these measures aim to eradicate this epidemic as soon as possible.
"Given the difficult security environment, this epidemic has gone beyond the public health framework alone. So far, the epidemic has been contained in two provinces of the DRC. But to put a decisive end, it is necessary to strengthen the multisectoral component of the response, and therefore the involvement of other key ministries, under the coordination of the Prime Minister, "said in a statement the Ministry of Health.
President Tshisekedi also decided to strengthen the role of the national police and the army in collaboration with MONUSCO to secure Ebola response and treatment centers.
The Ministries of Finance and Budget have been instructed "to put the substantial resources at the disposal of the Steering Committee of response so that the experts have all the appropriate logistics."
Experts from the INRB, the School of Public Health and researchers from the University of Kinshasa were associated to this meeting which analyzed the situation of the Ebola virus epidemic and its eradication.
