Inside the epicenter of the mpox emergency in the DRC
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Doctors and health officials are struggling to manage a recent surge in mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Vaccine shipments recently arrived, but they fall far short of the 3 million doses needed. Is the world responding quickly enough to prevent another global health crisis?
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In this episode:
- Alain Uaykani (@AlainUaykani), Al Jazeera journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Chloe K. Li and Ashish Malhotra with Amy Walters, Hisham Abu Salah, Hagir Saleh, Duha Mosaad, Shraddha Joshi, and Natasha Del Toro, in for Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, inside the epicenter of the M. Pox emergency. |
| 0:15.0 | Here in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the virus is common, but it's spreading. |
| 0:20.0 | The first vaccine shipments have arrived in the DRC, |
| 0:23.8 | but it's only a fraction of what they need. |
| 0:27.4 | Why doctors are struggling to manage the rapidly spreading outbreak? |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Natasha Deltoro, and this is The Take. |
| 0:48.9 | It's very, very difficult when you see these people with severe cases of impacts. You see people with a skin rash, a severe skin rash, mainly children, from the head up to the legs, you see them |
| 0:57.5 | crying, suffering a lot. We understand that the majority are kids. |
| 1:02.8 | Al Jazeera's Alan Waikani is a journalist based in the DRC. A couple of weeks ago, he visited |
| 1:08.7 | the South Kivu province in the eastern part of the country, |
| 1:12.1 | a region embroiled in armed conflict. |
| 1:15.0 | Alan spent some time there reporting from a clinic treating Mpox patients. |
| 1:19.4 | I found myself in front of the severe cases, and it's so severe, even doctors were also affected |
| 1:26.8 | because they're in contact with these people in a very dire condition. |
| 1:31.3 | For example, because the area is dire and also dirty in terms of the condition they didn't have enough means. |
| 1:38.3 | It's only now that some means are coming. |
| 1:40.3 | While the World Health Organization, the WHO declared MPAX a global public health |
| 1:46.2 | emergency last month, the vast majority of cases reported have been in the DRC, with 17,500 |
| 1:53.7 | cases and around 630 deaths since the start of the year. Alan, where are you actually today? |
| 2:06.6 | I'm in the town of Goma, the capital city of the North Kivu province in East and years. |
| 2:08.6 | So this is a new variant of the virus. |
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