UN health chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus landed on Saturday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo province worst-hit by a severe Ebola outbreak, an AFP journalist saw.
The World Health Organization’s director general told reporters in Bunia, capital of Ituri province, that the international community was helping the DRC government cope with the outbreak, but “at the same time community ownership is important.”
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He said that was the reason for his trip: “We are here to discuss with the community, to see how the response is running and if there are challenges to help.”
The highly contagious hemorrhagic fever is already present in three eastern DRC provinces and in neighboring Uganda, where nine confirmed infections, including one death, have been recorded.
