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Jan Grarup RAPHO / Newsweek
"Forgotten Refugees of the World - Democratic Republic of Congo"


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Very few people can afford the treatment at Kalemie's only private hospital, but the survival rates for cholera victims are not much better than at the local hospital. In Congo, cholera has become the symbol of the international society's neglect. In the hospital in the village of Kalamie, the doctors and nurses work frantically to treat their patients in the permanent cholera wing. The ill lie in specially designed cholera beds. During epidemics, more than half the patients die, although most of those suffering from cholera never even make it to the hospital.
 

 

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