Hundreds of injured people have put in crowded hospitals in Goma, a major city in Eastern Congo, as they had a seat of about 2 million people as a seat of about 2 million people.
“We will be infected before treating all,” said Florence Dute, an operating room nurse at Bethesda Hospital, “
Since the onset of the invasive of the M23 rebels on 26 January, more than 700 people have been killed and around 3,000 have been injured in the city and its surrounding area, saying officials say. Bethesda Hospital alone said it receives more than 100 new patients each day, which increases its capacity of 250 beds.
Bethesda is one of the several hospitals in Goma that visited Associated Press with insufficient personnel and supply. Many people of the city’s hosts 6.5 million people were displaced by the struggle, which is one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
Since more people arrived at hospitals with gunshot or shrapnel lesions, many were forced to share beds, while others lay on the floor, they were waiting for medical attention while writing in pain.
“This is the first time I am feeling,” Patrick Bagamuhund said, who was injured in the fight. ,
According to United Nations experts, compared to 2012, when they occupied Goma before taking back under international pressure, the M33 rebels are supported by some 4,000 soldiers from neighboring Rwanda. They are the most powerful among over 100 armed groups dying for control in the mineral-rich of Congo, which keeps the vast deposits important for most of the world’s technology.
Unlike 2012, the rebels say they are now planning to march, describing the country as a failed state under the President’s Felix TsiskD, Kinshasa, the capital of the Congo.
The fight in the Congo has a relationship with a decades of ethnic conflict. The M23 says it is defending ethnic pony in the Congo. Rwanda has claimed that Tutis has been persecuted by Hutas and former militia, which is responsible for the massacre of other people in 800,000 Tutis and Rwanda of 1994. Many Hutas fled to the Congo after the massacre and established democratic forces for the liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) Military Group. Rwanda said that the group is “fully integrated” in the Group Kangoli Army, which denies the allegations.
Hospitals are running out of supply
Medical workers at Kasero Hospital in Goma say that they are treating the increasing number of patients with bullet wounds.
A surgeon, Johnny Kasangati said on Friday, “We removed 48 bullets yesterday.”
According to Joseph Amadoman Sagara, according to Joseph Amadoman Sagara, a project coordinator, Josepho, is doing more than 200% of its capacity in a few days, which is adequately congested, which runs a hospital that runs a hospital .
In the past, Goma Hospitals could transport injured patients at a distance of 180 km in the main city of South Kivu, Bukavu, south, but transport across Kivu Lake was suspended during the rebellion and most of the roads were cut off. Was gone
The battle in and around Goma has disrupted supply chains, leading to a decrease in medical supply that rely on help groups. Some of them first entered the city through their international airport, which is now under rebel control.
“Goma was cut off from the world. This was a total blackout, “Virgin Napolitano, said the emergency coordinator of Goma for doctors without borders.
Stockpiles of the aid group along with other groups have been looted.
Napolitano said, “We are meeting what we were doing in the cabinets, but I don’t know how long.”
How many have been killed in the struggle?
The Congo government has confirmed 773 deaths and 2.880 injured persons in Mars and Hospitals. The toll may be high, it said, citing the possibility of finding graves and more bodies on a large scale.
Maternit de La Charit Hospital in Goma was among those who were struggling to find a place for the dead.
“We had 66 bodies here. The hospital’s medical director Jules Kafiti said, “Twenty -six was transferred to the provincial hospital, where the morgue has more space.
“We need to avoid decomposition due to the disease,” he said, pointing to a tent where the bodies were stored.
The apprehensions of the disease spread as the overflow of Morgue
After the occupation of the city, the scores of bodies on the streets in Goma and in hospitals increase the possibility of outbreak of the disease in the area, which is facing an outbreak of MPOX and cholera.
The United Nations Health Body warned last week that repeated large -scale displacement in the Congo has created an ideal situation for the spread of spatial diseases in the displacement camps and surrounding communities, including cholera, which has 22,000 last year. Looked at over infections, and measles, which was affected by 12.000, 000,000 people. This area fights with the malnutrition of the old child.
“There is a fear to spread widely in communities for the disease,” Dr. said. Borima Hamma Sambo Representative of World Health Organization in Congo. “But at this point, we cannot say because we do not have a bee dab to reach there.”
