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Reporters press U.N. officials on Security Council attention as officials call for political focus
Summary
Journalists asked whether the Security Council and donor capitals were giving the Ebola outbreak sufficient attention; U.N. officials said the response is a public-health operation in a complex security setting and requested political pressure and funding.
Dulce Limark of PestBlue asked whether there was a gap between political attention in Kinshasa and the operational needs in eastern DRC, noting that the Democratic Republic of Congo held the Security Council presidency that month but that Ebola had not been raised.
Julian Harness answered that the Ebola response is principally a public-health operation that must operate in a complex security environment due to armed groups and violence, and said that most cases were concentrated "in and around Bunia" where, he said, the environment was currently secure enough for people to seek care. Harness reiterated an appeal for political attention and funding to enable the multisector response to scale up.
