Beni: Five more Ebola patients leave treatment centers after recovering
Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Five Ebola patients recovered and left treatment centers in Beni, North Kivu, on Aug. 31, 2026.
- The group included two children, two women and a health worker, marking the largest single discharge from Beni’s two treatment centers since the outbreak began in May.
Five people who recovered from Ebola left treatment centers in Beni on Monday, Aug. 31, in the largest group to be discharged at once from the city’s two facilities since the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 17th Ebola outbreak began in May.
The group included two children, two women and a health worker. All five had been treated at Ebola centers in Beni, in North Kivu province.
Their discharge marks the biggest number of patients to leave the two Beni treatment centers in a single operation since the start of the current outbreak.
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Originally published by Radio Okapi in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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