| Action response of WHO and UNICEF hemorrhagic fever "Ebola" Isiro |
Kinshasa, 28/09 (ACP) - The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) has sent equipment and inputs Isiro, chief town of the district of Haut-Uele in the Eastern Province, as part of their joint response to the Ebola haemorrhagic fever.
According to the spokesman of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kinshasa, Yvon Edounou, UNICEF was able, with air support from the UN Mission for Stabilization in DRC (MONUSCO) , issue of transport equipment (vehicles, 10 motorcycles and 80 bicycles) and communication materials to strengthen the fight against this epidemic.
These interventions, he said, are carried out with funding from $ 1.75 million as UNICEF and WHO received last week from the central base (CERF). In addition, 78 cases, including 32 deaths, have been recorded at September 24, 2012, by the International Coordinating Committee of Scientific and Technical fight against fever in the district of Haut-Uele, says it does. ACP / BUM. -
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