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Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting their supplies

Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting

Goma, Congo – Hundreds of wounded were poured into crowded hospitals in Goma, a major city in the Eastern Congo, where fighting between government forces and rebel -backed rebels who say they have seized the city of about 2 million people.

“They will become injured before we can treat them all,” said Florence Duet, the operating room nurse at Betisda Hospital, where she came to patients with varying degrees of injuries.

Since the beginning of the M23 rebel attack on Guma on January 26, more than 700 people have been killed and about 3000 were wounded in the city and with an older. Petsda Hospital alone said that he was receiving more than 100 new patients every day, which led to an increase in his ability to 250 beds.

Bethesda is one of several hospitals in Goma visited by the Associated Press that does not contain insufficient employees and supplies. The city hosts many nearly 6.5 million people displaced by the conflict, and is one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world.

When more people arrived at hospitals with fire injuries or shrapnel injuries, many were forced to share the family while others lying on the ground, and they suffer from their wounds while waiting for medical attention.

Patrick Bagamuhonda, who was wounded in the fighting, said, “

The M23 rebels are supported by about 4000 soldiers from the neighboring Rwanda, according to United Nations experts, much more than in 2012 when they first seized Goma. It is the most powerful of more than 100 armed groups competing for control of the East, which is rich in minerals in the Congo, which carries a decisive broad deposit for many technology in the world.

Unlike 2012, when the rebels first seized Goma and kept it for several days, they say they are now planning the march to the Congo capital, Kinshasa, 1000 miles (1,609 km), describing the country as a failed state under the leadership of President Felix Chesikdi.

Fighting in the Congo is deeply rooted in the ethnic conflict. M23 says he is defending the ethnic totsi in the Congo. Rwanda claimed that Tutsi is persecuted by Hotos and the former militias responsible for the 1994 group genocide, which includes 800,000 Tutsi and others in Rwanda. Many Hotos fled to the Congo after the genocide.

Medical workers at Kesheiro Hospital in Juma say they are treating an increasing number of patients with bullet wounds.

“We removed 48 bullets yesterday,” said Johnny Cassangati, the surgeon at the hospital, on Friday, examining a patient under a tent.

Kyeshero is also severely crowded, as it reached more than 200 % of its capacity in some days, according to Joseph Amadum Sagara, the project coordinator for doctors without borders, runs the hospital.

In the past, hospitals in Goma managed to transport wounded patients by boat to the main city of Boukavo in southern Kivu, 180 km (111 miles), but transport was suspended through Lake Kivu during the rebellion and was mostly among the clashes.

The fighting in Goma and around it also disrupted supply chains, which led to a lack of medical supplies on which relief groups depended. Some of them previously entered the city through its international airport, which is now under the control of the rebels.

“Goma was cut off from the world.” Virgin Napolitano, emergency coordinator in Juma, told the doctors without borders.

The relief group stocks were also looted, along with those in other groups, amid chaos.

“We are going through what we have in the tanks, but I do not know how much time,” Napoltano said.

The Congo government confirmed 773 deaths and 2880 people infected in Morgez and hospitals. He said that the losses could be higher, citing fears of finding mass graves and more objects.

Matenité de la chaité in Guma was among those who struggle to find space for the dead.

We had 66 bodies here. The hospital’s medical director, Gul Caffei, said that fifty -six was transferred to the Al -Maqabat Hospital, where the morgue has more space than our areas.

He added, “We need to avoid decomposition due to the disease,” noting a tent where the bodies have been stored.

Dozens of objects are located in the streets and in hospitals in Juma after picking the city, raising fears of the outbreak of diseases in the area, which also face the outbreak of MPOX and cholera.

The United Nations Health Authority warned last week that repeated mass displacement in the Congo has created ideal conditions for the spread of endemic diseases in the displacement camps and surrounding societies, including cholera, which witnessed more than 22,000 infections last year, and measles, which affected nearly 12,000 people. Also battles with malnutrition for chronic children.

“There is a fear of the spread of the disease on a large scale in societies,” said Dr. Borima Hamma Sambo, representative of the World Health Organization at the Congo. “But at this point, we cannot say that we were unable to get there.”

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The Associated Press Justin Kabumba journalist in Goma contributed.

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2025-02-03 07:33:00


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