Via Radio Okapi: Ebola in Beni: the response committee calls for increased security for its agents. The Google translation:
The support committee for the response to the Ebola virus disease on Tuesday (December 24th) called in Beni to reinforce security for the agents and structures for the treatment of this disease. This committee says it deplores the threats and several attacks against health structures recorded recently in the territory of Beni (North Kivu) and Mambasa (Ituri).
The president of the support committee for the response against Ebola, Me Omar Kavota, made this proposal to the FARDC General Staff:
“We are currently advocating at the military level for a specialized unit to secure the response teams. We would like that, compared to the operational sector which is in Beni, as it is subdivided in axes according to certain commands, we would like that they are affected by the General Staff of the FARDC, a commander who will be able to manage units responsible for securing response teams."
The structure believes that efforts must be made so that the care agents and structures are protected and secure in order to definitively overcome this disease.
“Alongside the ADF, we must realize that the other most formidable enemy is the Ebola virus epidemic. And as long as the medical professionals, as long as the medical structures are the object of attacks on behalf of the armed groups without there being specialized units at the level of the police force, at the level of the army to reassure these health professionals, we can tell ourselves that we still have a way to fight this epidemic,” continued Omar Kavota.
