India, May 29 -- World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus arrived in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo, late Thursday to review efforts to control an outbreak of a rare strain of Ebola.
"To come here is to really show to the community that they're not alone," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
"Pushing orders from my comfortable office in Geneva is easy, but I'm asking my colleagues to work with the community and I am asking communities to protect themselves."
According to the WHO, there were 1,077 suspected Ebola cases and 238 suspected deaths recorded as of Tuesday. Doctors and health workers are struggling to contain the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which currently has no approved vaccine or ...