India, Jan. 9 -- Since June 2019, 310,000Congolese havesuffered the disease
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is going through one of its worst health crisis. Since June 2019, the African country is in the grip of a deadly measles epidemic. According to World Health Organization (WHO), it has infected over 310,000 people so far, leaving more than 6,000 dead.
DRC's ministry of health, along with WHO and partner agencies, have vaccinated more than 18 million children below the age of five since 2019. But vaccination levels are low in some parts in the country; many patients are older than five.
"We are doing our utmost to bring this epidemic under control. Yet to be truly successful we must ensure that no child faces the unnecessary r...