00:00As Ebola spreads across the DRC, the country is stepping up its response with the opening of its largest Ebola
00:06treatment centre in Bunia.
00:08The new facility will care for Ebola patients while also diagnosing and treating other suspected illnesses.
00:15When a case is triaged here and suspected of being Ebola, the patient is referred to one of the isolation
00:23rooms located behind me.
00:25If the test result is negative after 48 hours, we run a second test.
00:30If both tests are negative, the person is discharged and returns home, receiving treatment for any other conditions associated with
00:37the initial suspicion.
00:41Medics explain how suspected Ebola patients are managed at the transit centre, where those in isolation are monitored as the
00:48outbreak, which has already claimed 1,587 lives, continues to spread.
00:57We currently have four cases in isolation here.
01:00Among them is a child who lost his father, a two-year-old boy whose father died at the Ebola
01:06transit centre.
01:08He has developed a fever, diarrhoea and vomiting.
01:11He's already in isolation here.
01:16The new centre, the largest of its kind in the country, features specialised facilities to even safely treat pregnant women
01:23with confirmed or suspected Ebola.
01:27So the work is nearing completion.
01:30It is a 100-bed facility, but the capacity of 100 beds comprising 60 beds for confirmed cases and 40
01:38for suspected cases.
01:39More than 300 staff members will be working at the centre, and we are counting on the community to help
01:45accelerate the process of identifying cases.
01:52The WHO says more than 3,600 Ebola cases have been confirmed and is urging an immediate scale-up of
01:58the response as the outbreak accelerates.
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