Striking health workers join cholera vaccination drive in DR Congo’s Mbandaka
Striking nurses and health workers in Mbandaka will join a door-to-door cholera vaccination campaign running November 6-15. Their unions say the strike goes on, and hospitals and health centres remain closed.
Nurses and health workers in Mbandaka, in DR Congo's Equateur province, have agreed to join a cholera vaccination campaign while their strike continues. Radio Okapi reported that they made the decision this week. The campaign runs from November 6 to 15. The seven health sector unions in Mbandaka reached the decision at an extraordinary session. Alain Lingoma, coordinator of the Equateur health inter-union, said the move responds to a humanitarian need. The outbreak is hitting the city and its surroundings hard. The unions first secured approval from their national leadership in Kinshasa. "The cholera epidemic is severely shaking the city of Mbandaka and its surroundings. It is a situation we have never known," Lingoma said, according to Radio Okapi. Deaths…
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