Attackers kill nurse, injure health worker responding to DRC Ebola case
The attack in eastern Dr Congo is the latest on health workers and responders to the deadly Ebola outbreak.
A nurse has been killed and another health worker severely injured after they were attacked while responding to an Ebola alert in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the World Health Organization.
It was the latest in a series of attacks on health workers and responders that authorities say is hampering efforts to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in the world.
The attack took place on Saturday in the town of Bafwasende in the DRC’s eastern Tshopo province, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X on Sunday.
Last month, a DRC politician was beaten to death in North Kivu after publicly defending the government’s response to Ebola. He had called on the public to obey response measures, particularly social distancing and hand-washing, on a radio show.