Patients 500 MPOX run through clinics after robbery of rebels

Over the last month, more than 500 MPOX patients escaped clinics in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Officials of the CDC AFRICA control and prevention center, a leading health agency on the continent, said they are worried because the missing patients risk spreading a highly contagious disease that has allegedly killed 900 people from Congo last year.

Patients escaped from the facilities in Gomo and Bukov – two cities that went down to chaos when they were confiscated by rebels supporting Rwanda in recent weeks.

“We were looted. We lost the equipment. It was a disaster,” said the BBC D -R Samuel Muhanda, who was in charge of the clinic in Homo.

MPox – previously known as MonkeyPox – can cause symptoms such as lesions, headaches and fever.

According to Africa CDC, almost 2,890 MPox cases and 180 deaths have been reported in the country since the beginning of this year.

D -Ruhinda told how at the end of January, at the end of January, 128 patients escaped at Hom Mugung’s health center.

He said his medical professionals could not trace them because the documents were destroyed in the clinic.

In Bisengimana, a hama hospital, which also treats MPOX, marauders took medicine and personal protective equipment.

The fires were illuminated by the center, and when the criminals left, the medical cards of the patients left on the floor.

The situation was further complicated by the decision of the M23 to close the camps network, where tens of thousands of people who have sought asylum in battle in recent years.

Them gave 72 hours leave last weekAlthough M23 later stated that it was encouraging a “voluntary return”.

“Now we are afraid of the outbreaks of the epidemic in the areas where the displaced people have returned,” said D -Muhind.

His fears were responded to the African CDC.

“We again call for the ceasefire, as well as the agency to create a humanitarian corridor to facilitate long MPOX events,” said D -Ngas Nonga, MPOX AFRICA CDC incidents on Thursday.

Over the last week, CDC in Africa notes that the number of missing patients with MPOX has grown by 100 when the fight against escalation and the rebels occupy more territory.

D -nggo added that Dr. Congo also revealed a new MPOX option with a “high potential for enhancement”.

The country’s ability to respond to the disease hinders the conflict between the M23 and Army DR Congo army, as well as lack of funding.

The MPOX facility in Mugung funded by the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) and the UK Aid Direct managed to reopen last week.

But it is already so overstretched that there are cases where four or five patients should share one bed.

“For the first time, I fled from a passer to the Goma when the M23 rebels began to pass from there,” said Sadiki Bichiechi, a 23-year-old man who was treated in Mugung with his two children, BBC said.

“I started to get sick (a camp for displaced people). It started with my fingers, and then I had defeats that began to break on my hands. My neighbors ordered me to go to Mugung with my children. I left my wife behind.”

He said he saw “so many” mpox before he arrived at the clinic last week.

D -ommani Ruopofi, Goma UNICEF health specialist, told the BBC that the only reason for Mugung’s hospital had resumed was because the staff managed to hide the equipment and medication from marauders.

But it was not so in many other centers that were completely broken, he said.