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Related: About this forumEbola outbreak in DR Congo: Patients 'taken to church'
Three Ebola patients left a treatment centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo after their families demanded to take them to church, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Two of the patients later died, while the third returned to the centre in the city of Mbandaka.
This presents a new challenge for health workers battling to stop the spread of the contagious disease, says the BBC's Anne Soy in DR Congo.
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The patients' relatives came to the centre, which is run by medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and demanded to take them for prayers, WHO officer Eugéne Kabambi told the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44229346
Two of the patients later died, while the third returned to the centre in the city of Mbandaka.
This presents a new challenge for health workers battling to stop the spread of the contagious disease, says the BBC's Anne Soy in DR Congo.
...
The patients' relatives came to the centre, which is run by medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and demanded to take them for prayers, WHO officer Eugéne Kabambi told the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-44229346
Nice going, assholes. A chat with your invisible friend has put people at risk of death.
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: Patients 'taken to church' (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
May 2018
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ecstatic
(32,653 posts)1. Perhaps a priest could suit up and go to the treatment centre?
That would make a lot more sense.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)2. They may have already done that.
The patients and their families weren't demanding to see a priest/minister. They insisted on going to the church building.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)3. This reminds me of that time...
...an atheist with no medical training told people suffering from a highly infectious, highly lethal, hemhorragic fever to hang out at the local Barnes & Noble.
Oh, right. That didn't happen. Ever.