{"id":3755,"date":"2025-01-30T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2025-01-30T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:55:08","slug":"dr-congo-crisis-a-public-health-nightmare-is-unfolding-warns-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/?p=3755","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo crisis: A public health \u2018nightmare\u2019 is unfolding, warns WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As UN agencies reported \u201crelative calm\u201d on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces could fuel a region-wide health emergency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The internet also remains down in the provincial capital and only mobile phone networks are functioning, with M23 fighters apparently in control of \u201ca significant portion of the city\u201d after intense clashes with the Congolese army, UN agencies reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Aid teams from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) \u201ccannot move freely to support the hospitals, even ambulances cannot run. It\u2019s a situation that in public health is a nightmare,\u201d said Dr Boureima Hama Sambo, WHO Representive in DRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As UN agencies reported \u201crelative calm\u201d on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces could fuel a region-wide health emergency. The internet also remains down in the provincial capital and only mobile phone networks are functioning, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-english-gate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3757,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabahkm.com\/jo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}