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DRC: New attack on Ebola response team in Butembo
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 14:15
Armed men conducted a new attack on Friday 19 April 2019 against the university clinic of the Catholic University of Graben (UCG) in Butembo located Malende district in the commune of Kimemi. This clinic hosts an Ebola response team that triage cases of the disease.
The attack began at 1400 hours and lasted at least half an hour.
"They surprised the team of response (against Ebola, Ed) in full meeting. The shots lasted between 30 and 45 minutes. We are in our hiding places with patients. They have just burned a vehicle of the riposte. A doctor assigned to the response has been shot. He is in the emergency room right now. But the police and the army come to intervene. The shooting stopped. We're going to be out soon, "says to ACTUALITE.CD Achille Mukekya, intern ophthalmologist at the clinic.
The Ebola Response Team has been working at the clinic for a long time, but it has been a month since its case triage services have been installed there.
The University Clinic of Graben Catholic University organizes several services including ophthalmology, physiotherapy and cardiology.
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DRC: New attack on Ebola response team in Butembo
Friday, April 19, 2019 - 14:15
Armed men conducted a new attack on Friday 19 April 2019 against the university clinic of the Catholic University of Graben (UCG) in Butembo located Malende district in the commune of Kimemi. This clinic hosts an Ebola response team that triage cases of the disease.
The attack began at 1400 hours and lasted at least half an hour.
"They surprised the team of response (against Ebola, Ed) in full meeting. The shots lasted between 30 and 45 minutes. We are in our hiding places with patients. They have just burned a vehicle of the riposte. A doctor assigned to the response has been shot. He is in the emergency room right now. But the police and the army come to intervene. The shooting stopped. We're going to be out soon, "says to ACTUALITE.CD Achille Mukekya, intern ophthalmologist at the clinic.
The Ebola Response Team has been working at the clinic for a long time, but it has been a month since its case triage services have been installed there.
The University Clinic of Graben Catholic University organizes several services including ophthalmology, physiotherapy and cardiology.
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WORLD NEWSAPRIL 19, 2019 / 11:10 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Attacks on hospital in Ebola zone kill Cameroonian doctor
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Attacks on a hospital at the epicenter of Democratic Republic of Congo?s Ebola outbreak have killed a Cameroonian doctor and injured several others, the local mayor said on Friday.
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