News | Health
| Goma: MONUC's hospital provides essential support to the mission and the FARDC | |
MONUC - November 18, 2009 | |
 | The MONUC Indian Level 3 Hospital in Goma, is a modern state of the art facility that treats MONUC staff and FARDC casualties, assists medical NGOs and treats the local population. Since its inception in March 2005, hospital staff have worked in a professional, systematic and diligent manner, giving the hospital the reputation of a premier healthcare facility. |
| WHO: DR Congo has no influenza A/H1N1 | |
Xinhua - May 28, 2009 | |
 | Last week, WHO officials reported suspected cases surfacing in Lubumbashi, Katanga and Goma in DR Congo's eastern North Kivu Province, while having samples sent to a South African laboratory for examination. WHO was informed on Tuesday that the samples had been tested negative, keeping DR Congo off the list of countries being hit by the novel flu virus. |
| End of Ebola outbreak | |
WHO - February 17, 2009 | |
 | The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has on 16 February 2009 declared the end of the Ebola epidemic in the Mweka and Luebo health zones in the Province of Kasai Occidental . The last person to be infected by the virus died on 1 January 2009. This is more than double the maximum incubation period (42 days) for Ebola. |
| Fight against malaria continues in the DRC | |
MONUC - April 25, 2008 | |
 | World Malaria Day was celebrated in Kinshasa this Friday 25 April 2008 in the DRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs, by the DRC Ministry of Health and its national and international partners. A call was made for better partnership and coordination among the various actors in the fight against the epidemic, which kills thousands of Congolese every year. |
| Kinshasa: DRC public health workshop to pave way for the future | |
MONUC - April 9, 2008 | |
 | In Kinshasa from 7-12 April 2008, the DRC Ministry of Health will review the annual DRC public health report of 2007, in conjunction with its international partners. During the five day workshop, the state of the DRC public health system will be addressed, challenges will be identified, recommendations will be made and the 2009 health budget will be planned. |
| Government announces end of Ebola outbreak | |
IRIN - November 20, 2007 | |
 | Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, which claimed the lives of 21 of the 26 people infected in the Kasai Occidental province, is now over. |
| Monitoring of Ebola "must continue" | |
IRIN - October 3, 2007 | |
 | Health specialists agree that surveillance and monitoring of an Ebola epidemic have to be maintained, despite falls in the numbers of people affected in the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Ebola in DRC: Nearing control of the outbreak, but vigilance still required | |
MSF - October 1, 2007 | |
 | Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen a decrease in the number of admissions in its isolation unit in Kampungu, a village of 9,000 inhabitants which is the epicentre of the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
| Medics Struggle to Limit DRC Ebola Outbreak | |
VOA News - September 21, 2007 | |
| A suspected Ebola death has been reported in another province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, raising fears that the virus may be spreading. But the World Health Organization says that with new mobile laboratories in the country and an effective awareness campaign taking place, isolating Ebola cases should now become easier. |
| Ebola virus outbreak in central DR Congo claims 160 lives | |
UN News - September 12, 2007 | |
| At least 160 people have died in an outbreak of the highly lethal haemorrhagic Ebola virus in the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today, announcing that it is rushing medical and supplies to the region to try to contain the disease. |
