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MSF Calls On International Community To Stop Ignoring DRC Conflict Amid Ebola Outbreak

Tankred Stoebe, a medical emergency coordinator at the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Berlin and former president of MSF Germany, told Sputnik that the international community should join forces to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to resolve the ongoing conflict to prevent the Ebola outbreak from spinning out of control

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – ) Tankred Stoebe, a medical emergency coordinator at the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Berlin and former president of MSF Germany, told Sputnik that the international community should join forces to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to resolve the ongoing conflict to prevent the Ebola outbreak from spinning out of control.

The DRC Health Ministry said earlier this month that more than 1,100 people had died from the Ebola virus disease since August.

“If there is a war, the country by itself is not able to resolve it. It needs to have international help to resolve the conflict and we don’t’ see it in Congo for many years. What we see is that international community either ignores the conflict and doesn’t help to resolve it.

If the conflict is not resolved and the medical issue comes on top it gets completely out of control,” Stoebe said.

He voiced concern that Ebola treating centers were being destroyed because of the war, which eventually led to the number of deaths from the disease going up.

“We need vaccination, we need drugs for Ebola, because it was such a forgotten disease in small areas in Africa for the past 40 years … We ask the scientific world and the international community, including pharmaceutical companies, to develop drugs for Ebola,” Stoebe stressed.

The DRC has suffered from violent conflict for more than two decades. Even though the Second Congo War, also known as the Great African War, ended in 2003, Eastern Congo has remained destabilized as various rebel groups are still operating in the area

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