Emmett Livingstone
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496 appearances
51 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4d ago
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The WHO Director General may see it for himself when he travels later this week to the epicenter in a Turi province in Eastern Congo.
This is a region riven by militia violence and extreme poverty, and the health system there is a broken shell.
The heart of the outbreak is a remote gold mining town called Mongualu, and health workers and NGOs there face huge challenges.
Some residents don't believe that Ebola exists.
There have been violent attacks on the hospital and on Ebola isolation tents, and parts of the town are now no-go zones.
I've been speaking to Dr. Esther Sterk, a tropical disease specialist for Doctors Without Borders in Mongualu.
So put simply, the hospitals and NGOs are overwhelmed and struggling to keep up with the scale of the outbreak.
Neighbouring countries are really on high alert.
Uganda has so far recorded seven confirmed cases, according to its health ministry.
But concern is now spreading internationally as well.
It's not just regional.
Canada has announced a 90-day entry ban for residents from Congo, Uganda and South Sudan.
Last week, the US banned non-citizens who had travelled to any of those three countries from entering.
The White House confirms the US is establishing a facility in Kenya for Americans who may have been exposed to Ebola but who aren't showing symptoms.
And Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the administration, and I quote, cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States.
What are the most urgent needs right now?
The immediate priorities are containing the virus, and that requires PPE, a ramping up of testing capacity, isolation units, and tracing known contacts of suspected Ebola cases.
There are major gaps in diagnostics, delays of days in confirming cases who are showing symptoms, which is slowing a response.
Security and access remain critical issues in conflicted areas like Ituri, and there is $500 million of international aid that has been pledged, but much of the work on the ground is still only just beginning, and the delivery of aid is hampered by insecurity, by logistics, by weak health infrastructure, and unfortunately, in some places, by corruption.
Unlike some other Ebola strains, there is currently no vaccine for this one, and for many communities, help is only arriving after the dead have already been buried.
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