Prosper Eri Ngora

You are isolated.

Human beings are social animals.

When you are isolated from people, from your family, from your friends, it can sometimes frustrate you.

It can be really hard for you to cope with all those misconceptions, to cope with all those doubts surrounding that disease.

People are concerned in the whole Democratic Republic of Congo.

I have spoken with Claude Kasuna.

He's a Ituri resident.

He has said that he's afraid.

He fears that the disease, because many people there have many beliefs that doesn't have any scientific basis.

He has stated that when you say about the need of social distancing and wearing masks, people tend to oppose saying that such measures are bothering them.

Gloire Mombessa, who is a resident of Mungualu, an epicenter of the disease, he has shared with me a fact that he knows a family

who lost their eight-year-old daughter.

And the girl has symptoms such as vomiting, weaknesses throughout her body.

And he said that doctors are monitoring other family members to assess their health.

He underlined that the population is now starting to realize the danger they are facing.

We are among least developed countries.

It means our health infrastructures are very poor.

We don't have modern technology that can help us to deal with such outbreaks.

Apart from that, yes, our country, Democratic Republic of Congo, depends on international aid.

We have seen when Donald Trump came into power, he has shut down AIDS.