00:02The Red Cross voiced alarm after six workers taking part in a bid to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak
00:08were harmed in attacks last week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
00:13In a statement, the organisation said that attacks against volunteers and humanitarian personnel are unacceptable.
00:20Last week, the World Health Organisation warned these assaults affect the Ebola response.
00:24Yesterday, one of our ambulance was attacked here, you know, one of the ambulance of the response operation was attacked
00:31here, you know, in Punia.
00:33And we are really quietly, extremely, very regularly challenged by this situation, by this attack on healthcare services.
00:40Since the Ebola outbreak was declared in May, 12 volunteers have been injured, ambulances have been damaged,
00:46and equipment has been destroyed during 11 violent incidents, the Red Cross said.
00:52Tensions have emerged with local communities over the handling of Ebola victims' remains.
00:57Burials must be supervised as corpses remain contagious.
01:01In Eastern Congo, youth caravans raise awareness for Ebola amid the attacks on health workers.
01:07On the ground, when the response teams arrive to do their work, there are young people who attack them so
01:17that they can't do their work well.
01:19So this activity is organized to show to these young people that the disease exists.
01:25And we must all unite our efforts so that this disease can be eradicated.
01:31More than 2,500 deaths from above 5,300 confirmed cases of Ebola have been registered in the DRC, according
01:40to the WHO.
01:41We believe that this isacamole of assault.
01:43We believe that the virus is a problem.
01:44The virus can be there.
01:44I'll see you next time.
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