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The distance between life and death is razor thin at one medical clinic in Rwampara, the heart of the epidemic ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo. A doctor from the medical charity, Alima, struggles to save Justin Bataga Mugarwa, 42, dying from Ebola at a hospital in Rwampara in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in June. Photographs and Text by Finbarr O’Reilly Finbarr O’Reilly spent two weeks reporting from Ituri Province, the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On one side of the Ebola ward, a woman visiting her ailing husband spoke to him through a plexiglass window. He had spent two days at the ward recovering from the virus and, after his first negative test, expected soon to be discharged.
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The recently built outdoor Ebola ward, run by the medical charity Alima, has treated 708 Ebola patients, 291 of whom have died from the virus as of this month. The ward was hastily put together, made from temporary wood frame structures with corrugated metal roofs.
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The distance between life and death is razor thin at one medical clinic in Rwampara, the heart of the epidemic ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo. A doctor from the medical charity, Alima, struggles to save Justin Bataga Mugarwa, 42, dying from Ebola at a hospital in Rwampara in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in June. Photographs and Text by Finbarr O’Reilly Finbarr O’Reilly spent two weeks reporting from Ituri Province, the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On one side of the Ebola ward, a woman visiting her ailing husband spoke to him through a plexiglass window. He had spent two days at the ward recovering from the virus and, after his first negative test, expected soon to be discharged.
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