Mongbwalu Ebola centre discharges its last patients
Health · First reported 29 Oct, 17:13 · Updated 02:12
Staff and local residents celebrated after the treatment centre in Mongbwalu, Ituri province, discharged its last confirmed Ebola patients. The milestone applies to that centre only; the wider outbreak was continuing, with health authorities reporting more than 10,000 confirmed cases on 27 October.
- The Mongbwalu treatment centre discharged its last remaining patients, leaving it with no confirmed Ebola cases under treatment for the first time since May.
- Medical staff and residents danced and sang outside the centre to mark the discharges.
- The centre’s milestone did not mean the wider Ebola outbreak had ended; authorities reported more than 10,000 confirmed cases on 27 October.
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- Location
- Mongbwalu, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo
- Centre status
- No confirmed Ebola patients under treatment after the last patients were discharged
- Reported case count
- More than 10,000 confirmed cases in the latest African outbreak as of 27 October
- Celebration
- Medical staff and local residents danced and sang outside the centre
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- A supplied earlier report says survivor clinics in Bunia and Beni provide medical follow-up, psychological and nutritional support, and biological surveillance; Bunia’s clinic had served more than 400 survivors. [0004501e-ffdf-4e9a-b9d2-0be5fd702501]
- An earlier supplied report says a nurse treating Ebola patients was killed on 26 October, amid attacks linked to misinformation, according to health officials. [041fab1f-d29c-4909-ae03-ffe49f79d36a]
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