The organisation has had to pulls it workers out of two treatment centers  torched by angry local residents.

Medicines Sans Frontiers blamed deepening community district for the failure of medical workers to contain the outbreak of the deadly hemorrhagic disease that already killed 570 people these past seven months.

MSF points to political, social and economic grievances in the eastern DRC and the overly militarized response to the EBOLA outbreak.

The organisation’s health care centers in Butembo and Katwa were burned down, forcing the health workers to withdraw.

There is a very real danger of EBOLA spreading across the DRC border into Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.  

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The closure comes as the second largest outbreak in recorded history of the haemorrhagic spreads through the east of the Central African giant.

Medicines Sans Frontier’s local representative Emmanuel Massart says Sunday’s attack on the Katwa centre in North Kivu has crippled the charity’s ability to respond to what is now the epicenter of the EBOLA outbreak.

Katwa has treated 239 of the 872 EBOLA cases recorded since December and seen 182 of the 483 EBOLA deaths.

The ten patients at Katwa – four of them confirmed EBOLA victims – have been transferred.

The brother of one of the patients, later identified as a caretaker, died trying to escape the attackers.

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