Bunia

By late September, confirmed cases had passed 8,000.

WHO reported more than 1,600 treatment beds across 50 centers, and violence around the displacement camps near Bunia keeps disrupting the response.

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A treatment center burned to the ground and a world that still can't agree to get ready for the next one.

So who's actually showing up? Sarah, start with the fire.

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Bunia.

Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

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Today, whether a falling curve means anything, an MSF doctor flown to the Netherlands, a transit center lost to fire in Bunia, and a killing in Butembo that shows what mistrust costs.

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We start with the numbers.

The enormous challenge of halting the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, just became even harder after a key transit center for patients requiring treatment burned down in Ituri province.

This is Kigonze.

On Wednesday we talked about soldiers searching that camp in Bunia and families running.

Now the camp is empty and the Ebola center is gone.

Yet in this outbreak, many people are still dying at home or in their communities because they are unable to reach health facilities on time.

A WHO delegation recently visited Bunia in Ituri Province, which is the epicenter of the outbreak.

Health facilities here are hugely overstretched.

We have trained large number of health workers, in total nearly 400, with the newly launched training hub in Bunia training around 30 to 60 health workers a week.

Every patient bed requires a skilled workforce to provide safe, quality care around the clock.

The WHO has also equipped health centers in the area.

So why is nobody talking about...

So because, okay, if you say now ban, for instance, the export of coltan, are you going to attract a factory to be set up in Bunia or somewhere in Eastern Congo where you can't even control Ebola? And we just don't have the logistics to do these things.

Thailand, by the way, Charles, is the best example of how you go along the journey of raw materials.

You first accumulate enough capital from trading it.

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True to its philosophy of putting the patient at the heart of its work, Alima has taken on the logistical challenge of setting up four Ebola treatment centers, ETCs, Rwampara, CM Bunia, Nizhi, and Lita in just two months.

With a total capacity of two hundred thirty-nine beds, this strategic network is vital to ensure that patients can receive treatment as soon as the first symptoms appear.

Four treatment centers in two months.

Rwampara, CM Bunia, Nizhi, Lita.

If you're mapping it, that's Bunia and the towns around it.

Dead center of Ituri.

Two hundred thirty-nine beds total.

Eight teams trying to keep deadly Ebola disease from spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, are increasingly worried about fighting and violence that's forced thousands to flee a displacement camp caught up in the outbreak.

The alert follows reports that families fled Kigonze displacement camp in Bunia, northeast Ituri province in eastern DRC.

Soldiers had reportedly entered the site searching for weapons and people suspected of belonging to non-state armed groups.

According to the Congolese authorities, the number of confirmed Ebola cases has passed 8,000 for the first time since the current outbreak began.

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In, in Bunia.

Um, and this is the epicenter of the, the, um, fastest growing outbreak of Ebola in history.

Um, the provincial governor, um, is telling us that, uh, you know, particularly we- they're worried about, you know, healthcare workers 'cause they're, um, you know, have high exposure rate.