World Food Programme tweets emergency response to DR Congo’s Ebola-affected regions

Despite the announcement of Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) in August last year, the crisis is still not under control. The current Ebola outbreak is the worst on the record in the DR Congo and is still ongoing in the densely populated region.

World Food Programme has recently taken to Twitter to announce its support in the DR Congo's Ebola-affected regions by providing food to survivors and potential carriers. In July 2019, the World Food Programme revealed that it scaled up and doubled food assistance to the people affected by Ebola.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) based in Italy's Rome announced in July 2019 that it would almost double its food assistance and nutritional support to 440,000 Ebola-affected people in DR Congo in the next 6 months and its service would include "primarily contacts of victims and their families, as well as confirmed and suspected cases". During the same period, WFP also revealed its plan to expand the fleet of aircraft dedicated to the Ebola campaign in support of frontier responders including the UN agencies and NGO personnel.

WFP also plans, as revealed earlier, to augment the number of primary schools in Ebola-affected areas of DRC to provide with nutritious hot lunches that typically consists of rice, beans, fortified vegetable oil and salt.

In the latest tweet, WFP claims that families in the Ebola-affected areas receive one-week and they are being encouraged to go for medical check-ups at least once in every week over the course of 28 days. Check WFP's official tweet below:

WFP is supporting the #Ebola Emergency Response in #DRCongo by providing food to survivors and potential carriers.Families receive one-week rations, encouraging them to come back for medical check-ups at least once per week over the course of 28 days.📸 UN/Martine Perret pic.twitter.com/Irw1qyQ7m3

— World Food Programme (@WFP) August 29, 2019

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