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STORY: WHO / DRC MPOX BROLL
TRT: 09:19
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / CONGO SWAHILI / NATS
DATELINE: 15 AUGUST 2024, NYIRAGONGO GENERAL HOSPITAL, NYIRAGONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)
1. Wide shot, hospital grounds, with patients and health workers
2. Various shots, health worker examining a young child with suspected mpox
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Tresor Basubi, Physician in the Isolation department, Nyiragongo General Hospital:
“Currently we are receiving mpox patients here. So, mpox is an illness which manifests itself by a high fever of sudden onset and accompanied by skin rashes, skin rashes like blisters. There are also lymphatic swellings, known as lymphadenopathy and also there are other associated symptoms, including cephalgia or headaches, as well as dysphagia.”
4. Various shots, Dr Basubi examining an elderly man with suspected mpox
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Tresor Basubi, Physician in the Isolation department, Nyiragongo General Hospital:
“Since we opened here about two months ago, we have received 260 patients. Among them there are suspected and confirmed cases. Currently we have 17 cases already confirmed. There are some patients who are here in isolation and other patients have been treated and cured and have already returned home.”
6. Various shots, health worker taking the temperature of a young boy before examining him
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Tresor Basubi, Physician in the Isolation department, Nyiragongo General Hospital:
“Monkeypox is transmitted mostly by direct contact from a sick animal, with or without symptoms, to a healthy person. There is also (transmission) from a sick person to a healthy person. It is also transmitted from a sick mother to her child during pregnancy.”
8. Various shots, Beatrice Ndeze and her two children
9. SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“I was with the child at home, he started having a fever and I thought he had malaria, so I bought the medicine.”
10. Wie shot, Beatrice and her two children
11. Close up, her youngest child on the bed
12. SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“And then a friend came by the house, and upon seeing the child she told me he could die, and I should bring him to the hospital. That’s how I came here”
13. Wie shot, Beatrice helping the older child drink from a bottle.
14. Close up, her youngest child on the bed
15. SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“When we arrived, they saw that there were a lot of sores, and I didn't know what they were. The sores were yellow and then they opened and turn red. When I arrived, they consulted us and told me to stay for treatment.”
16. Wie shot, health worker reviewing charts and paperwork
17. SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“Now my one son is much better, unfortunately he had already infected his brother. But he is getting treated too and is already progressing well.”
18. Various shots, women and children; one woman feeding a young child a small amount of food from a metal bowl
19. Various shots, people at the hospital; waiting, talking to each other
20. Various shots, displaced camp next to Nyiragongo General Hospital with Dr Alain Mangolopa walking away from the camera
21. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We immediately brought together all the partners around the Ministry of Health and the alert was brought to the provincial level through the governor of the province. We have also started urgently-needed actions like rapid detection of cases, awareness raising and briefings of health care providers at different levels. In addition to that, we have given briefings to community health workers. WHO has also made efforts to strengthen the aspects of collection and testing of samples so that we can support the nearby health zone.”
22. Wide shot, Dr Mangolopa talking to someone off camera
23. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO is here to reduce, as much as possible, the risk of disease expansion at the global level especially in the countries where we are present. We are there, alongside the Ministry of Health, supporting the local health system in the province of North Kivu. We work alongside the DPS (Divisions Provinciales de la Santé) to strengthen the coordination mechanisms, the surveillance, vaccination efforts, the quality of care and the promptness of actions. And together, with the other partners, we are coordinating this response around the Ministry of Health.”
24. Various shots, woman weaving a basket
25. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This crisis has lasted too long, and the impact is visible, given the needs are greater than the response. These populations continue to live in very vulnerable conditions and in promiscuity and this increases the risk of the spread of different diseases. There is the outbreak of cholera, which has lasted more than two years. Now we have mpox, we have measles, we also have other epidemics around us which we are trying to curtail. Worse still, there is the influx of wounded and bombs falling in the displaced persons camps, which makes the situation much more serious and complicates the management of the response. WHO encourages the integration of the response during this period and the pooling of resources. The most important action is to move towards the resilience of health systems, especially since this crisis has lasted too long.”
26. Various shots, showing life in the camp, people sitting down with bowls of grain, livestock animals in between the tents and shelters
27. SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“As you have seen, a household has about six or eight people. And this household is residing in about two square metres. You have about six people who are registered in this household. [This disease] transmits by contact. It is transmitted by sexual contact. It is transmitted by direct contact and by indirect contact. So, the risk is so high for all the populations who are in the camps, and in the conditions in which the displaced people live in the different camps. Already, in the displaced persons camps, we have more than ten cases that have already been recorded. Which means that if efforts are not made for North Kivu, it will spread like wildfire.”
28. Wide shot, Dr Mangolopa walking through camp
The identification of mpox cases in IDP camps around Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is concerning as high population density can result in further spread, and population movements can hamper response efforts.
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Tresor Basubi, Physician in the Isolation department, Nyiragongo General Hospital:
“Currently we are receiving mpox patients here. So, mpox is an illness which manifests itself by a high fever of sudden onset and accompanied by skin rashes, skin rashes like blisters. There are also lymphatic swellings, known as lymphadenopathy and also there are other associated symptoms, including cephalgia or headaches, as well as dysphagia.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Tresor Basubi, Physician in the Isolation department, Nyiragongo General Hospital:
“Since we opened here about two months ago, we have received 260 patients. Among them there are suspected and confirmed cases. Currently we have 17 cases already confirmed. There are some patients who are here in isolation and other patients have been treated and cured and have already returned home.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Tresor Basubi, Physician in the Isolation department, Nyiragongo General Hospital:
“Monkeypox is transmitted mostly by direct contact from a sick animal, with or without symptoms, to a healthy person. There is also (transmission) from a sick person to a healthy person. It is also transmitted from a sick mother to her child during pregnancy.”
Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of Goma in DRC is receiving many patients with suspected mpox.
SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“I was with the child at home, he started having a fever and I thought he had malaria, so I bought the medicine.”
SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“And then a friend came by the house, and upon seeing the child she told me he could die, and I should bring him to the hospital. That’s how I came here.”
SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“When we arrived, they saw that there were a lot of sores, and I didn't know what they were. The sores were yellow and then they opened and turn red. When I arrived, they consulted us and told me to stay for treatment.”
SOUNDBITE (Congo Swahili) Beatrice Ndeze, Patient’s Mother:
“Now my one son is much better, unfortunately he had already infected his brother. But he is getting treated too and is already progressing well.”
The hospital includes an mpox treatment centre where patients from the local community and from nearby internally displaced persons (IDP) camps are being treated.
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“We immediately brought together all the partners around the Ministry of Health and the alert was brought to the provincial level through the governor of the province. We have also started urgently-needed actions like rapid detection of cases, awareness raising and briefings of health care providers at different levels. In addition to that, we have given briefings to community health workers. WHO has also made efforts to strengthen the aspects of collection and testing of samples so that we can support the nearby health zone.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“WHO is here to reduce, as much as possible, the risk of disease expansion at the global level especially in the countries where we are present. We are there, alongside the Ministry of Health, supporting the local health system in the province of North Kivu. We work alongside the DPS (Divisions Provinciales de la Santé) to strengthen the coordination mechanisms, the surveillance, vaccination efforts, the quality of care and the promptness of actions. And together, with the other partners, we are coordinating this response around the Ministry of Health.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“This crisis has lasted too long, and the impact is visible, given the needs are greater than the response. These populations continue to live in very vulnerable conditions and in promiscuity and this increases the risk of the spread of different diseases. There is the outbreak of cholera, which has lasted more than two years. Now we have mpox, we have measles, we also have other epidemics around us which we are trying to curtail. Worse still, there is the influx of wounded and bombs falling in the displaced persons camps, which makes the situation much more serious and complicates the management of the response. WHO encourages the integration of the response during this period and the pooling of resources. The most important action is to move towards the resilience of health systems, especially since this crisis has lasted too long.”
SOUNDBITE (French) Dr Alain Mangolopa, Emergency Response Field Coordinator, North Kivu Office, World Health Organization (WHO):
“As you have seen, a household has about six or eight people. And this household is residing in about two square metres. You have about six people who are registered in this household. [This disease] transmits by contact. It is transmitted by sexual contact. It is transmitted by direct contact and by indirect contact. So, the risk is so high for all the populations who are in the camps, and in the conditions in which the displaced people live in the different camps. Already, in the displaced persons camps, we have more than ten cases that have already been recorded. Which means that if efforts are not made for North Kivu, it will spread like wildfire.”
On 14 August 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR).
