00:01Doctors battling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing
00:06growing challenges, including supply shortages, attacks on health facilities, and patients
00:12fleeing treatment centers as the virus spreads rapidly.
00:16At least three attacks have been reported in Ituri Province, where the outbreak began,
00:21including two over the weekend targeting Mongboalu General Referral Hospital and triggering
00:26the escape of more than two dozen patients.
00:29The incidents mirror violence seen during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, when more than
00:3625 health workers were killed amid misinformation and anger over burial restrictions.
00:42The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of the rare Bundibugio strain of
00:47Ebola a public health emergency of international concern.
00:50WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that more than 900 suspected
00:58cases, including 101 confirmed infections and 220 suspected deaths, have been reported so
01:05far.
01:06Dr. Richard Lokodou, Medical Director of Mongboalu General Referral Hospital, said 18 Ebola patients
01:13fled after unidentified attackers burned isolation tents set up by Médecins Sans Frontières.
01:19One escaped patient later tested positive for Ebola.
01:23The hospital was attacked again on Sunday by youths linked to the relatives of a religious
01:28leader who died from Ebola, prompting more patients to flee and forcing security forces
01:34to intervene.
01:36Authorities said the attackers were demanding the release of Ebola victims' bodies for burial
01:40rights.
01:40The bodies of Ebola victims remain highly infectious after death, and unsafe burials, where relatives
01:47handle the deceased without protective equipment, are a major source of transmission.
01:52The outbreak has spread from Ituri to North and South Kivu provinces, and across the border
01:58border into Uganda, which has now confirmed seven Ebola cases.
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