Katwa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Katwa
Katwa
Coordinates	0 ° 7 ′  N , 29 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 0 ° 7 ′  N , 29 ° 22 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Democratic Republic of Congo
province	North Kivu

Katwa is a place in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , in the province of North Kivu . Katwa is about two kilometers east of the city of Butembo and about forty kilometers west of the border with Uganda . The place was significantly affected by the Ebola virus epidemic from 2018 to 2020 . Until January 22, 2019 146 people were in Katwa Ebola fever ill and died 90th On February 25, 2019 there were already 242 cases of illness and 184 deaths in the place.

On the night of February 24-25, 2019, there was an attack in Katwa in the Butembo health zone against the local treatment center operated by Doctors Without Borders ( Médecins Sans Frontières ). This was first attacked with stones and then burned down and furnishings destroyed. The brother of a patient at the center was killed while trying to escape. The four patients with confirmed Ebola and six suspected cases treated at the center were transferred from Katwa to the Butembo treatment center. Doctors Without Borders then stopped helping in Katwa.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ situation epidemiologique dans les provinces du Nord Kivu et de l'Ituri. Oly Ilunga Kalenga , Ministre de la Santé, 23 January 2019, accessed on 23 January 2019 (French). 
2. ↑ situation epidemiologique dans les provinces du Nord Kivu et de l'Ituri. Dr. Oly Ilunga Kalenga , Ministre de la Santé, February 26, 2019, accessed on February 27, 2019 (French). 
3. ↑ DR Congo: Doctors Without Borders stops aid in Katwa. In: aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de. February 26, 2019, accessed February 27, 2019 .