Seven months into the outbreak, 'the Ebola response is failing to bring the epidemic under control,' Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a statement.
GENEVA, Switzerland - Efforts to curb the Democratic Republic of Congo's worst Ebola outbreak are stumbling, medical charity MSF warned on Thursday, blaming the role of the security forces in the response and their "toxic" relations with local communities.
"That means that we have not reached them and they have not sought our care," MSF chief Joanne Liu told reporters in Geneva.It has claimed 561 lives out of 894 recorded cases, according the latest DRC health ministry figures.Liu warned that growing reliance on the security services to bring people to treatment centres was spurring hostility.
It also said repairs would begin on the centre in Katwa, North Kivu, which was set ablaze on the night of February 24. "Some local health staff have told us that they live in fear of being associated with the response," she said, stressing that "the use of coercion adds fuel to this." She insisted that responders needed to listen more to people's needs and concerns, and try to offer safe alternatives to those unwilling to be isolated away from their families for long periods of time in treatment centres.
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