Ebola worker killed at hospital in eastern DR Congo 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseA health worker fighting an Ebola outbreak in DR Congo was killed Friday in an attack on a hospital in the eastern city of Butembo, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The attack is the latest in a string of assaults on teams grappling with a near nine-month-old Ebola outbreak that has claimed almost 850 lives. “The @WHO family lost a dear colleague in the hospital attack in Butembo, #DRC, today,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a tweet. On March 9, an attack on a treatment center at Butemo left a policeman dead and a health worker wounded.

Source: Manila Bulletin April 19, 2019 16:30 UTC