A Cameroonian doctor working as an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization has been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), highlighting the dangers faced by health workers trying to stem the country’s deadly Ebola outbreak. Dr Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung lost his life in an attack on the university hospital in Butembo, North Kivu, in which one other people were injured. The ongoing violence in North Kivu has hampered the efforts of medical teams to treat the disease and prevent its spread.
A Cameroonian doctor working as an epidemiologist with the World Health Organization has been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), highlighting the dangers faced by health workers trying to stem the country’s deadly Ebola outbreak. Dr Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung lost his life in an attack on the university hospital in Butembo, North Kivu, in which two other people were injured. The ongoing violence in North Kivu has hampered the efforts of medical teams to treat the disease and prevent its spread.