Staff at medical clinic in Goma treat mpox patients as disease spreads in eastern DRCongo

Goma has for decades been embroiled in the ongoing deadly conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Now, the city in the east of the African nation, is ground zero in the latest outbreak of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox.

Staff at the Nyiragongo General Hospital on the outskirts of Goma have seen an increase in the number of patients with the disease.

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