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00:00In this tent at Kvumu Hospital in the province of South Kivu in eastern Congo, mothers gather
00:07exhausted and worried.
00:08Nzigire watches over her four children, all of whom have been infected by Mpox.
00:14I'm taking care of my children infected with this disease.
00:18They have skin lesions.
00:19They were admitted here almost dead and now I'm watching over them.
00:23I haven't seen any real changes in their health yet.
00:26South Kivu is the epicentre of the Mpox epidemic in Congo, with over 5,000 cases detected in
00:32the province since January.
00:35Situation is really serious.
00:38We are really overwhelmed because we have a small capacity and we are very busy.
00:44In the neighbouring province of North Kivu, Mpox cases are also multiplying.
00:48Dr. Bazubi is carrying out a series of hospital consultations.
00:53She shows signs of Mpox, like blistering skin rashes.
00:59Patients are put into isolation and then treated.
01:01An average of 10 new cases arrive every day, mainly children from overcrowded displacement
01:06camps.
01:08It's quite a worrying situation.
01:11We've seen that the primary means of transmission is direct contact.
01:16So when you have a large number of people in a household in a limited space, you run
01:21the risk of seeing the disease spread rapidly.
01:26To combat the epidemic, awareness campaigns have been launched in several displacement
01:30camps around the city of Goma.
01:33We can all get sick.
01:34If I'm infected, I can infect you and you can infect others.
01:38Health workers go over and over protective measures to take against infection, such as
01:42washing hands regularly and avoiding physical contact.
01:45But the measures are difficult to apply in these conditions.
01:48Here the only hope is the arrival of Mpox vaccines.