
一名官员称,周六有人在刚果民主共和国焚毁了一座埃博拉治疗中心,事发时正努力遏制由邦迪布古病毒引发的疫情。
Persons unknown burned an Ebola treatment center in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, an official said, amid efforts to contain an outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus.
该事件发生在北中部特索波省的农村镇巴夫瓦森德,时间为清晨,负责该卫生区的医生马塞尔·利基洛说。
The incident took place in Bafwasende, a rural town in the north-central Tsopo province in the early morning, according to Marcel Likilo, a medical doctor in charge of the particular health zone.
此事发生在该地区针对埃博拉警报进行响应的医护人员被暴民私刑处死仅一周后。
The incident occurred just one week after mob lynched a health worker while responding to an Ebola alert in the area.
利基洛在基桑加尼省会向记者透露,两个为疑似病例预留的房间被焚毁,随后当地警卫介入并扑灭了火灾。
Two rooms reserved for suspected cases were burned before local guards intervened and the fire was put out, Likilo told reporters in the provincial capital Kisangani.
他表示,派驻该卫生区支援埃博拉防控的医生已逃往基桑加尼,中心内的疑似病例被转移至邻近伊图里省的尼亚-尼亚。卫生官员称,社区抵抗仍是遏制病毒努力的一大挑战。
He said doctors deployed in the health zone to support the Ebola response fled to Kisangani and suspected cases which were at the center were transferred to Nia-Nia in the neighboring Ituri province. Community resistance remains a challenge to efforts aimed at containing the virus, health officials said.
卫生部最新数据显示,确诊埃博拉病例已超过1万例,其中自5月中旬以来死亡超过5千例。
The latest Health Ministry figures showed confirmed Ebola cases have crossed 10,000, including more than 5,000 deaths since mid-May.