The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) warned on Monday that maternal mortality in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has doubled during the Ebola outbreak, with an average of six women dying in childbirth each week.
Noemi Dalmonte, deputy representative for the Congo from UNFPA, said that deaths outside of hospitals showed an especially alarming increase because the Ebola outbreak has made Congolese women afraid to use hospitals and clinics.
Health workers interact at the Evangelical Medical Center, in Bunia, eastern Congo, Friday, July 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dirole Lotsima Dieudonne)
Dalmonte noted that Africans generally tend to avoid healthcare facilities during emergencies due to fear...
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