DR Congo Ebola crisis: $700m in relief funds missing, warns MSF
Medical charity MSF has warned that $700m meant to combat a deadly Ebola outbreak in DR Congo is unaccounted for, leaving frontline health workers unpaid and unequipped.
Hundreds of millions of dollars allocated to fight a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo are failing to reach the front line, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned. While the outbreak remains out of control, health workers are going unpaid and ambulances lack fuel.
More than 5,400 people have died and 11,000 have been infected since May, making it the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak on record. MSF urged the Congolese government and UN agencies to urgently strengthen oversight and ensure funding reaches frontline medical staff.
The warning follows Africa CDC findings that 700 million dollars out of 962 million disbursed remains unaccounted for amid severe reporting failures, leaving responders empty-handed.
Source: BBC News
