A six-year-old Ebola patient, who Congolese authorities were searching for after armed men stormed the hospital where she was being treated, has been found and is "doing well."
On Wednesday, Dr Lubambo Maboko Gaston said that a girl and her mother had been taken by "very angry" men from a hospital in the eastern city of Butembo, two days previously.
It is unclear whether the men were known to the child, but suspicion and fear surrounding Ebola treatment centres have been rife during the current outbreak.
Dr Lubambo Maboko said the child and mother had turned up at an Ebola treatment centre on Friday last week roughly 18km from Butembo.
Ebola treatment facilities have come under attack multiple times during the ongoing outbreak.
It has been confirmed that more than 230 deaths have been registered in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Last month, police fired shots in the air in the town of Mongbwalu after angry crowds attempted to reclaim the bodies of loved ones who had died of Ebola at a health facility.
On Friday, a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said the Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo was still "evolving so fast".
Marie-Roseline Belizaire, W.H.O Africa's emergencies chief at a briefing, said that 75 health workers had caught Ebola during the outbreak and, of these cases, 17 had died.
The outbreak was declared on 15th May, though transmission had been undetected for some time.
The surge in cases has been caused by a rare species of Ebola, the Bundibugyo strain. There is currently no vaccine for this strain and it could take months for a jab to be ready.
The current Ebola outbreak has the potential to be one of the largest ever, the head of Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) added this week.
Ebola cases are currently concentrated in Ituri, South Kivu and North Kivu provinces, where the six-year-old girl was taken from the hospital on Monday the 15th June this week.
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