{"id":15563,"date":"2019-09-14T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=15563"},"modified":"2019-09-14T17:31:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:31:28","slug":"dr-congo-ex-health-minister-arrested-over-ebola-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/09\/14\/dr-congo-ex-health-minister-arrested-over-ebola-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo ex-health minister arrested over Ebola funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested a former health minister for allegedly mismanaging funds allocated for the Ebola epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Oly Ilunga resigned as health minister in July after being stripped of responsibility for the fight against Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they detained him because they had information that he intended to evade legal proceedings and leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>He denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>In his July resignation letter, Dr Ilunga criticised the World Health Organization&#8217;s plan to use an unlicensed vaccine against Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>There was a shortage in supply of the previous vaccine and health experts argued another vaccine, which had not been widely tested, should be used.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ilunga said the previous vaccine was the only one with clinically proven effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised the decision to remove him as head of the Ebola response team, and replace him by a committee which he said had interfered with his work.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign donors have provided more than $150m (\u00a3120m) to combat Ebola in Dr Congo where more than 2,000 people have died since the start of the current outbreak.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">What is Ebola?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ebola-virus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15564\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ebola-virus.jpg\" alt=\"Ebola virus\" width=\"511\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ebola-virus.jpg 511w, https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ebola-virus-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Ebola is a virus that initially causes sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain and a sore throat<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">It progresses to vomiting, diarrhoea and both internal and external bleeding<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">People are infected when they have direct contact through broken skin, or the mouth and nose, with the blood, vomit, faeces or bodily fluids of someone with Ebola<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Patients tend to die from dehydration and multiple organ failure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-49702705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested a former health minister for allegedly mismanaging funds allocated for the Ebola epidemic. Oly Ilunga resigned as health minister in July after being stripped of responsibility <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/09\/14\/dr-congo-ex-health-minister-arrested-over-ebola-funds\/\" title=\"DR Congo ex-health minister arrested over Ebola funds\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[948,4550,6585,6584],"class_list":{"0":"post-15563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-dr-congo","11":"tag-ebola-treatments","12":"tag-ebola-virus","13":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15566,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15563\/revisions\/15566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}