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Ebola patients flee in attacks on Congo health facilities, hobbling response
Medical Director of Mungwalu General Hospital Richard Lokudu speaks to Reuters next to the burned remains of a destroyed emergency isolation tent. REUTERS/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere
Doctors operating on the front lines of the fight against Ebola in Congo, already grappling with shortages of basic supplies, are now also having to deal with attacks on their facilities and fleeing patients as the virus spreads rapidly.
At least three such incidents have occurred in the northeastern province of Ituri, where the first Ebola cases were reported, including two targeting the same hospital that permitted more than two dozen patients to run away.
Alongside attacks on health facilities, experts warn that unsafe burials are a leading driver of Ebola transmission. Bureau chief for West and Central Africa, Robbie Corey-Boulet, tells the Reuters World News podcast that those burial traditions hold deep significance in parts of Congo.
