Doctors Without Borders will end its involvement in the international
response to an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the heart of Africa later
this month, a sign that public health officials believe the outbreak
has been largely contained.
Doctors Without Borders, also called
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), had been tasked with operating treatment
facilities in four towns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
where patients tested positive for the Ebola virus. The group cared for
38 patients, 24 of whom survived.
MSF
began winding down its involvement in the Congolese outbreak late last
month, handing over operation of Ebola wards in the towns of Itipo and
Bikoro to Congo’s Ministry of Health. The group will finish building
an Ebola ward at the largest hospital in Mbandaka, a city of more than a
million residents that sits right on the Congo River. It will also
dismantle an Ebola treatment center it had established on the outskirts
of town.
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