Congo is the epicentre of mpox outbreak
KAVUMU - Dozens of feverish patients lay on thin mattresses on the floor of a makeshift mpox isolation ward in east Democratic Republic of Congo, as overstretched hospital workers grappled with drug shortages and lack of space to accommodate the influx.
But at the hospital complex in the town of Kavumu, where 900 symptomatic patients have been taken in over the past three months, health workers are desperate for support."There are many challenges we struggle to overcome with our local means," he said, noting that donations from international organisations rapidly dwindled.
"We do not have anything to eat," said Nzigire Lukangira, the 32-year-old mother of a hospitalised toddler. Like other mothers in the Kavumu mpox ward, Lukangira had started improvising with traditional remedies to ease her baby's pain. They dipped their fingers in potassium bicarbonate or salty lemon juice and popped their children's blisters. Adult patients did the same to themselves.
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