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Mongbwalu Ebola centre discharges its final patients

Health workers at an Ebola treatment centre in Mongbwalu in the Democratic Republic of Congo celebrated after the facility discharged its final patients, according to video carried by The Independent.

By Isla Camilleri 1 min read AI-written

The report identifies Mongbwalu as the historic epicentre of the outbreak, which gives the scene a particular weight. Treatment centres are places defined by containment and fear as much as by care. An empty ward does not settle every wider question about the outbreak, but it is still a concrete shift inside one of the places built to absorb its worst moments.

On the facts available, the clear development is narrow and significant: this facility no longer had Ebola patients in its care after those discharges.

That is not the same as a formal declaration that an outbreak is over, and the source does not set out any broader assessment from health authorities beyond what happened at the centre in Mongbwalu.

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Isla Camilleri Global Affairs & Lifestyle Editor

Isla Camilleri lost her mother at four, grew up in every city her diplomat father was posted to, married at 22 and left at 23, and came back to Malta to open a café-boutique in Valletta that sells couture and coffee to people who understand both. She covers the world the way someone searches for something — thoroughly, and without quite finding it. Borders have always felt temporary to her; their consequences never have. She looks for the person inside the international headline and refuses to let distance make that person smaller.

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