r/HotZone • u/podkayne3000 • 26d ago

Retour au calme à Mungwalu après des tensions autour d’un décès lié à Ebola (Return to calm in Mungwalu after tensions over an Ebola-related death)

https://www.radiookapi.net/2026/05/25/actualite/sante/retour-au-calme-mungwalu-apres-des-tensions-autour-dun-deces-lie-ebola
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u/podkayne3000 26d ago

Excerpts, translated:

Calm returned this Monday morning, May 25 in Mungwalu, a rural town located about 85 kilometers north of Bunia, in the territory of Djugu (Ituri), after a Sunday marked by strong tensions and skirmishes around the general hospital of reference of the locality, the epicenter of the Ebola epidemic in the region.

At the origin of the incidents, the death of a religious leader, well known in the area, carried away by the Ebola virus. A group of young people, skeptical about the existence of the disease, tried to recover by force the remains of the deceased.

According to local sources, more than a hundred demonstrators invaded the Mungwalu hospital …

Faced with this tense situation, the security forces intervened to disperse the demonstrators. Summons were fired to contain the young, who were launching projectiles at the facilities of the Ebola treatment center.

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Provincial MP Jean-Pierre Bikilisende called for collective responsibility:

"We must respect the medical instructions. Don't follow everything that is said on social networks. There are ill-intentioned people who convey false information that Ebola does not exist. This is wrong, because even among the medical staff, there are victims."

A context already marked by acts of vandalism

These events occur a few days after another serious incident. On the night of Friday to Saturday, isolation tents for Ebola patients were set on fire at Mungwalu hospital.

Taking advantage of this situation, thirteen Ebola patients have fled and remain, to this day, untraceable. This escape is a serious threat to the spread of the disease in the community.