Butembo

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Oct 22, 2026

7am

The forgotten health crisis

Oct 22 · 5 Mentions

#4 AU Top 5%

Daniel JamesHOST

1:00

It's Friday, October 23rd.

Daniel JamesHOST

1:08

Rupert, take me back to the Ebola Treatment Center at Butembo.

Daniel JamesHOST

1:12

When you arrived there back in August, what were you walking into?

Rupa NarraGUEST

1:16

Yeah, so we were working in Butembo.

Rupa NarraGUEST

1:19

And that area, actually, it's at altitude.

Rupa NarraGUEST

1:23

It's about around 1,500 meters of altitude.

Rupa NarraGUEST

2:23

We'd receive three or four kids in one day.

Rupa NarraGUEST

2:27

And the challenging part was the presentation of cases, whether it's a suspect or an actual confirmed case, this could look like anything.

The Flava Football Show

Flava Football Show - 21st October, 2026.

Oct 22 · 1 Mention

Pius MaamboHOST

53:58

I nearly asked you a question.

Pius MaamboHOST

53:59

[laughs] Uh, evening Football Giants, uh, first congrats to Nkana FC and Butembo.

Pius MaamboHOST

54:07

Is Heroes ready to host any games, Nkana Kuchalo, Mwandaba, uh, Pa Nkana East.

Patrick TemboPANELIST

54:17

FIFA inspectors were there, uh, th- th- this week.

News in Review

News in Review - October 10, 2026

Oct 10 · 3 Mentions

DonHOST

43:06

The aid group Medicines Sans Frontieres, known in English as Doctors Without Borders, said Friday the outbreak has particularly worsened in the North Kivu province, accounting for 40 percent of the new confirmed cases since the end of August.

DonHOST

43:24

It is like fighting a wildfire, Stephanie Hoffman, MSF coordinator in Butembo, said.

DonHOST

43:32

Multiple outbreaks are developing at the same time with varying intensity and in different locations.

DonHOST

43:38

Some health workers, meanwhile, gathered at the epicenter in Ituri province to demand payment for wages owed to them.

DonHOST

45:39

At least 50 health workers have died after contracting the virus.

DonHOST

45:44

One way local authorities have tried to contain the outbreak is through mobile laboratories.

DonHOST

45:49

In Butembo, an Associated Press journalist watched a medical team operating one such lab near an Ebola treatment center on Thursday.

DonHOST

45:58

Test results that used to take 72 hours can now be obtained in six hours with the mobile labs, said Loda Kalubi, a doctor at the treatment center.

Unknown podcast

DRC Ebola Averages 72 Cases a Day; Moderna Vaccine Cleared for Uganda — October 10, 2026

Oct 10 · 1 Mention

SarahHOST

3:37

No.

SarahHOST

3:37

Phase Ib asks two things: Is it safe, and does the body mount an immune response? It won't tell us whether anyone's actually shielded from infection, so no dose reaches a nurse in Butembo off this news.

DanielHOST

3:51

And the vaccine that does exist, Ervebo, is for a different strain.

SarahHOST

3:56

Zaire, right.

Unknown podcast

WHO Sees Congo's Ebola Epidemic Slowing in Places, Growing Near South Sudan, as Kenya Widens Its Contact List — October 08, 2026

Oct 8 · 3 Mentions

DanielHOST

5:41

Aid groups don't usually say that on the record.

SarahHOST

5:44

Stephanie Hoffmann, who coordinates MSF's treatment center in Butembo, told AP there's a lack of coordination and a lack of actors present.

SarahHOST

5:53

We aired MSF's full beds warning on Tuesday.

SarahHOST

5:56

What's new is the cost to ordinary clinics.

SarahHOST

5:59

She says local health workers must choose between sending sick community members home or putting themselves at risk to treat them.

DanielHOST

6:06

And the families in the middle of this?

SarahHOST

6:08

Michelle Gimba of the National Institute of Biomedical Research in Butembo says some residents still have a hard time believing the disease exists, and some families are reluctant to report a death or allow a sample That's a trust gap.

SarahHOST

6:23

Kaseya's answer is a village-centered approach, with local leaders directly involved in tracing, burials, and isolation.

Unknown podcast

Kenya Records First Ebola Death as DRC Confirmed Cases Pass 8,600 — October 07, 2026

Oct 7 · 1 Mention

SarahHOST

4:45

Customs holding shipments, not enough storage, roads trucks can't get down, telecom gaps.

SarahHOST

4:52

A dose cleared in Kinshasa still has to reach a nurse in Butembo up in North Kivu, and any one of those steps can stall it.

DanielHOST

5:00

Wait, telecom? In an outbreak where tracking down contacts is basically the whole game? And the plan only promises temporary services where resources permit, which is where the budget fight lives.

SarahHOST

5:13

Right.

Butembo

Oct 22, 2026

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