now cross over to Burundi where the country is currently seeing a surge in empo cases especially in the northern suburbs of the capital bujumbura while no deaths have been reported so far officials say an additional 412 suspected cases were recorded between the 5th and the 19th of August Burundi is one of 12 East and Central African countries experiencing a rise in empo cases the Africa CDC has reported 1,400 new cases since the 13th of August bringing the total to 18,900 across these countries with 24 deaths reported during this period the Democratic Republic of Congo which
has recorded the highest number of cases is set to receive vaccines from next week the treatment for empo is however costly in many African countries with vaccines priced at about $100 per dose making them unaffordable for many Africa CDC now says it plans to secure 10 million vaccine doses by 2025 at a press briefing on Monday the director General Dr Jean Cas announced a partnership with Danish manufacturer Bavarian Nordic to transfer vaccine production technology to Africa aiming to boost Supply and to cut costs as well okay let's talk more about this I'm now joined from
takar Sagal by Dr David muganga he is the medical manager for emergency and opening services at Al Lima this is a medical humanitarian organization Dr David thanks so much for your time on this now I know your organization has been at the Forefront of containing the empo outbreak for some time now what would you say are the challenges that medical workers are facing okay thank you dear and as as you said we are Al Lima we are International Medical organization and and we are really involved in outbrook response now in in DRC in two province
in North K and in South K and uh we are facing actually some challenges uh first is about the geographic barrier you know that the security in eastern part of DRC is very tough so the access to the Health Care is very difficult and as you spoke before there is resources limitations and uh we we we we are really facing the shortage in in in in medical supply in terms of protective equipment testing kit and all those shortage make difficult the the work of our our health workers on on on ground to to take care
of patient effectively I want to jump in because I to talk about the vaccination uh vaccines with the vaccine manufacturer stating that it would be about $100 per dose for these vaccines will African countries be able to get enough of them to be able to contain this outbreak I I don't think so I don't think so I can say that first grateful I'm grateful for the Japan government who I give a donation of through 3 million. 500 doses of these vaccines to DRC and and the the USA But as we know uh we have the
limitation of funding and the African countries will have more difficult to deal with such kind of issues and is very important that people uh do the best to to look for money uh to fund this these vaccinations otherwise it will be a great limitation for people to have access to vaccines I mean speaking from a logistical perspective how your teams able to reach isolated communities because we're hearing of cases where those suspected uh you know patients go to hospital when they have fullblown symptoms terms yes is is very tough for our team especially now we
are now we are in in a remote area in s called kamituga is one of the epicenter of of of empo disase now and we are really facing this issue related to security to to the the to the access even to to travel from bukavu to kamituga you need to go byy motorbike and it's very risky so so is very challenging because of lacking of good Road in DRC
