United Nations, July 3 -- The United Nations and its partners continue to support response to the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN humanitarians said.
In Ituri province, health authorities have confirmed at least two Ebola cases in the Kigonze displacement site, which hosts about 15,000 people displaced by conflict in the town of Bunia,said the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday.
An Ebola treatment center is currently being established at the displacement site, and a new program providing free health care to displaced people was launched on Thursday. Partners are also scaling up community outreach and disease prevention efforts, including the installation of ha...