United Nations health arm Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/united-nations-health-arm/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 United Nations health arm Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/united-nations-health-arm/ 32 32 Death toll from Congo’s EBOLA outbreak exceeds 2 000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/death-toll-from-congos-ebola-outbreak-exceeds-2-000/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/death-toll-from-congos-ebola-outbreak-exceeds-2-000/ The World Health Organization is calling the EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the worlds most complex humanitarian crises. In neighbouring Uganda a nine year-old girl taken across the eastern border in search of treatment has joined this killed by the deadly hemorrhagic disease  who now exceed 2000. The UN’s health […]

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]]> The World Health Organization is calling the EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo one of the worlds most complex humanitarian crises.

In neighbouring Uganda a nine year-old girl taken across the eastern border in search of treatment has joined this killed by the deadly hemorrhagic disease  who now exceed 2000.

The UN’s health arm, which has already declared the DRC EBOLA outbreak a public health emergency of international concern says authorities are battling to contain its spread.

They are faced with hostility by the local population and violence from rebels active in the EBOLA-affected region.

The nine-year-old girl died in Uganda this morning while waiting for specialists from the Congo to take her back home where she would have had better treatment.

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