From Sunday at least 700 deaths in Goma in Congo clashes

At least 700 people died since Sunday due to intense fights in Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This was reported by the UN spokesman. “The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners conducted an evaluation with the Congolese government between Sunday and Thursday, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the United Nations Secretary General. Dujarric said that while the number of dead will increase, so far “700 dead and 2,800 injured have been recorded.

A week of artillery clashes and gunshots between the M23, the Congolese army and the respective allies, have thrown Goma in total chaos with a population of two million inhabitants often remained without electricity and drinking water. Since yesterday – writes no borders – several cases of cholera have been reported and they continue to collect corpses but it will be possible to make a budget of the victims only when the clashes and urban violence will cease completely.

“The Obbitary of the Kyeshero hospital is currently overflowing with corpses, most of them not yet identified. We are in contact with the Ministry of Health to organize dignified burials for these people. Even the Obitors of the other Goma hospitals are overloaded “, says Virginie Napolitano, coordinator of the emergency of doctors without borders (MSF) in Goma.

The Kyeshero hospital, located in the western part of the city, where before the MSF offensive he took care of the malnourished children from mainly from the refugee camps on the outskirts of the city, is now also overwhelmed by the number of injuries. The MSF teams, which have had to re -read their intervention by implementing a plan for the management of massive influences of injured, are doing their best to treat everyone but there are no medicines and health personnel, especially specialized in surgery. At the beginning, the MSF teams received patients wounded by splinters but then they arrived mainly wounded by bullets, often wandering, because they were near the fighting without being able to protect or affected even at home, because the shots crossed the wooden walls of the homes.