BARCELONA — Ebola response and treatment should be integrated into public health systems, says Tristan Le Lonquer, Ebola emergency coordinator in North Kivu, DRC, for Médecins Sans Frontières, which is part of the national task force coordinating the response to the outbreak.
“I'm not saying we do it full-time and that it's an easy thing to do, but I think it's a way to build trust with the communities and bring back this specific disease into the spectrum of regular care,” he said. It would show the population that organizations and government care about the diseases they face on a daily basis as well as emergency outbreaks, he added.
Last week, the World Health Organization announced that Ebola remains a public health emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is struggling with a year-long outbreak that has so far killed more than 2,000 people.