Ebola claims lives of multiple doctors at DRC hospital as medics face agonizing frontline conditions
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Summary
The article reports on the devastating toll Ebola is taking on healthcare workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Dr. Vladimir Maduali and Dr. Tibenderana Katho Blaise are among multiple medical staff who died from Ebola at the Bunia Evangelical medical centre in Ituri province. Maduali, a 30-year-old who graduated just three years ago, died at an isolation centre after contracting the disease while treating patients. The piece highlights the agonizing conditions faced by medics battling the incurable disease on the frontline in eastern DRC.
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Maduali graduated from the University of Bunia just three years ago and had been working in the Rwampara region, one of the areas of eastern DRC's Ituri province worst hit by Ebola.
The 30-year-old died at Rwampara's isolation centre, where he had spent two days
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