In Lwiro Hospital, South Kivu (DRC), over 80 Ebola patients are treated in outdoor tents with no vaccine, no ambulance, and critical PPE shortages. COOPERA and Centro Mutima are already inside: help us build proper isolation and protect 22 frontline health workers now.
Lwiro Hospital, South Kivu (DR Congo), is one of only two Ebola Treatment Centers in the region. Over 80 patients are hospitalized today. Doctors and nurses treat them in outdoor tents - no isolation structure, no ambulance, critical PPE shortages, no food for the 22 health workers locked in quarantine. The Bundibugyo strain has no vaccine and no cure. Every hour without proper infrastructure is a death sentence for patients and staff alike.
COOPERA and Centro Mutima are already inside Lwiro - not arriving, already there. We will build a real isolation structure to replace the tents, supply 3 months of full PPE for all frontline staff, purchase a medical ambulance, cover disinfection, meals and salary supplements for 22 quarantined workers, and sustain the psychosocial team that sits daily with patients who are dying alone and afraid.
A functional Ebola Treatment Center in Lwiro protects 500,000 people in Kabare territory from uncontrolled spread. The isolation infrastructure stays after this outbreak - ready for the next crisis. Twenty-two local health workers trained in full biosafety become a permanent community emergency team. The psychosocial model developed by Centro Mutima will be shared across all treatment centers in South Kivu.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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