DRC - Unknown disease reported in the Kole Center Health Zone in Sankuru Province (Twitter) - gov denies ebola

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ALAIN BOTOKO
@AlainBotoko
Expert on climate change and Executive President of the NGO ESSF:


@AlainBotoko
16h16 hours ago
More ALAIN BOTOKO Retweeted Sonia Rolley

Madam, help us communicate to the world the epidemic that has been killing for two weeks in the Kole Center Health Zone in Sankuru Province, Kole Territory in central DRC. No radio or other classic medis echoes ...


@AlainBotoko
17h17 hours ago

What about the epidemic (Ebola or Mokey?x?) That has been rampant in the Kole Center health zone for more than 2 weeks, yet nobody talks about more than 7 people are carriers, one of my is among the victims (she passed away over 6 days ago)

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Some background on Alain Botoko and ESSF as reported:


"Healthy environment without borders" challenges Congolese

The non-governmental organization Environnement Sain Sans Fronti?re (ESSF), which advocates for the protection of the ecosystem, has organized since Monday, September 28, 2015, a 3-day conference-debate, which ends today at The Carter Center, in the Utexafrica concession, in the municipality of Gombe.

In view of the climate changes and disturbances that our planet is currently recording, the repercussions of which are also felt in the DRC, the ESSF wants, through these exchanges, to attract the attention of the country's notabilities (Bas-Congo, Bandundu and Sankuru). ), in order to sensitize the local bases for the use of viable techniques for a sustainable management of the entities and to promote the protection of the ecosystem. Does climate change find a respondent in eco-villages? What is the DRC's citizen contribution to climate change? It is around these questions that the speakers of yesterday exchanged with the participants. Regarding the first topic, Florence Kamana, trainer and eco-village in the NGO Hope for All, stressed that the Congolese can together chase away ignorance and become experts themselves in their environment, instead external expertise. According to her, sector solutions have provided answers but can not bring about a global change in society.

As for the DRC's contribution to climate change and the attitude to be adopted, Alain Botoko, national coordinator of ESSF, stressed the interest for DRC to preserve its forests, because of not only the ecological potential that they represent, but also because of the role they have to play as a remedy for the problems of global warming. Starting from the slogan "think globally and act locally", Alain Botoko gave a brief presentation of the current context of the DRC, through the fears and challenges facing the DRC, and the assets it has. In a global panorama of the current situation in the world, the destruction of the ozone layer which shrunk from 38 km before the first world war to 6 km currently, the floods and the bushfires, Alain Botoko underlined that the DRC is not immune to these repercussions, being also in climatic disruption, with the decrease of the quantity of water in its rivers and lakes (N'djili, Uele, Lukunga, Lake Albert, Lake Tanganika, the scarcity of rains , etc. Faced with his many problems, the speaker raised several challenges facing the DRC, including demography (uncontrolled), spatial planning and lack of inventory in terms of fauna, flora and the rest biodiversity, the lack of a policy that protects our 10 borders, the large number of armed groups that are more than 60, etc. But if we develop the entire biotope or living space of the DRC, think he, our income would be counted in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year, which would allow the country to ensure the protection of the ecosystem, through the promotion of the use of clean energy. This, in accordance with its strengths, among others, its population, its energy potential of 100,000 MW, its natural gas potential of 57 billion m3, and the DRC is counted among the sunniest countries in the world. Myriam Iragi

https://7sur7.cd/environnement-sain-sans-frontiere-interpelle-les-congolais/

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gov twitter account just now....

Ministry of HealthDRC @MinSanteRDC3m3 minutes ago2 minutes ago 3m3 minutes ago More



# HEALTH INFO - There is no case of # Ebola in Sankuru province. The article shared on social networks on this topic dates from 22/03/2019. Sankuru is a province in which cases of monkey pox (monkeypox) and bloody diarrhea are regularly reported.

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Pierre Ekumbaki
@PEkumbaki
Lawyer at the Court of Gombe Deputy Honorary Former Public Representative

@PEkumbaki
May 18

#RDC outbreak #Mokeypox virus

The province of Sankuru is struck by the deadly epidemic of Mokeypox, precisely in the territory of kole. The kole hospital already counts deaths. Let's launch alarm to the authorities of the Republic.
Urgency is needed to save lives at risk