For Dr. Ramses Kalumbi, Surveillance Team Leader for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Goma, reassuring his patients and their families is all in a day’s work.
Kakule and his deputy, 30-year-old Gervais Muhindo, form a duo resolutely determined to break the silence about the disease, and to end mistrust of Ebola health workers.
More than 800,000 people will be immunised against cholera in North Kivu in the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following the launch of a major vaccination campaign today.
A WHO expert checking names as the Health Ministry mobile team's surveillance officers set up a screening activity in rural Jeune Foire village in the Lutendele health area of Kinshasa. WHO/Eugene Kabambi