Via 7sur7.cd: North Kivu: Two patients cured of Ebola in Butembo. The Google translation:
The provincial minister of health in North Kivu, Doctor Nzanzu Salita Eugène, presided over this Wednesday March 3, 2021, the unloading ceremonies of 2 patients cured of the Ebola epidemic, which resurfaced in the province since February 7. They were unloaded from the Katwa Ebola Treatment Center (CTE).
Doctor Nzanzu Salita urges the population to believe in the existence of the virus in the region and not to stigmatize these Ebola winners.
“I am happy because it was not easy. From the first day, we came, we were able to install something to receive our patients. And here it is, they are healed. They are there. That is to say, on behalf of the government of the DRC and the province of North Kivu represented by Governor Carly Nzanzu, I would like to thank the entire population of Butembo (…). At the beginning, we were told that it is a made-up story. But here are our people coming back among us. I ask that we take them like other citizens. They are like us,” said Dr. Nzanzu Salita.
He also specified that these two recovered will adhere to the program for monitoring Ebola winners for a period of 2 years.
“The follow-up program for the cured is there for 24 months. So 2 years. They will be welcome to join this program so that this follow-up goes smoothly. We have a monitoring site here in Butembo. It is to tell the population that Ebola is there,” he added.
Until Monday March 01, the cumulative number of cases was 11. Since the reappearance of the Ebola virus disease in North Kivu, more precisely in the health zones of Biena, Katwa and Musienene, 4 people are already deceased.
