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Aid Supplies Delivered to Central Ebola Outbreak Zone in Congo During WHO Director‑General's Kinshasa Visit

Aid Supplies Delivered to Central Ebola Outbreak Zone in Congo During WHO Director‑General's Kinshasa Visit

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The head of the UN health agency travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday to show support as the country battles a new deadly Ebola outbreak. EU aid is expected to arrive in eight batches over the next eight days, according to UNICEF’s emergency operations chief Jérôme Kouachi. The United States announced an additional $80 million in assistance for Congo and Uganda, bringing its total commitment to more than $112 million since the outbreak began.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
World Health Organization
1. I am making a direct appeal to all warring parties in this region: please, declare a ceasefire.
2. There are ways to manage workers and to manage cases without having a strong, restricted travel ban and we don't encourage that as WHO.
3. Pushing orders from my comfortable office in Geneva is easy, but I'm asking my colleagues to work with the community and I am asking communities to protect themselves.
4. To come here is to really show to the community that they're not alone.
5. Sixteen times, this country has defeated Ebola. The 17th will be no different. But we must act now, together.
6. We cannot build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling.
7. I want you to know that you are not alone.
Anais Legand
World Health Organization
1. The DRC has said that on May 27, a patient recovered and left the hospital and has been discharged into the community.
Samuel-Roger Kamba
Congolese Ministry of Health
1. We are currently exploring the use of more and more drugs and compounds that can help save even more lives, because, as I've mentioned, this disease initially presents just like any other infectious disease we're familiar with: dizziness, headache, fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
2. Communities always ask themselves, 'What's going on?' And in epidemics like this one, it is really risk communication and community engagement that ultimately change perceptions.
3. We've seen in every epidemic that there's always resistance.
Jean Kaseya
Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1. Our leaders are ready to invest. We are investing at technical level, at a strategic level, to make sure that (the vaccine) will happen.
2. What we can tell you for sure, by the end of this year, 2026, Africa CDC will make sure that we have a vaccine and medicine against Bundibugyo.
Richard Lokudi
Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital
1. These are false rumors and intoxication that are thwarting measures we have put in place to respond to the virus.
2. People think it's a mystic illness. Or they don't trust the hospital, they think that hospital personnel are injecting people with the illness.
Esther Sterk
Doctors Without Borders
1. Every day there are many community deaths and suspected patients arriving at the hospital. This probably is only a small proportion of all cases at the moment.
2. The situation is currently very concerning, with active transmission ongoing everywhere around here in Mongbwalu.
David Munkley
World Vision International
1. So the moment of truth is, are we going to fund it or not?
2. We know what is required in terms of personal protective equipment, in terms of supporting communities and ensuring proper sanitation hygiene practices.

Aid Supplies Delivered to Central Ebola Outbreak Zone in Congo During WHO Director‑General's Kinshasa Visit

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