The U.N has reported that at least 900 people have been killed in Congo’s city of Goma after M23 rebel fighters entered the city.
Goma is in disarray due to power cuts resulting in almost decomposing of dead bodies because they’re unable to be preserved.
Most mortuaries are located in hospitals. But there is the race to burry the dead quickly to prevent the spread of disease to patients and healthcare staff.
This led to a mass burial of those killed in the fighting.
Hospitals have been overwhelmed by patients wounded by the fighting. Even Camps housing internally displaced Congolese have experienced bomb explosions.
Families have been displaced. Hospital staff say they have been overwhelmed and run out of supplies. They also complain of looting in hospital warehouses compounding the shortages in supplies.
So far, more than half a million people have been displaced by the fighting.
The scale of the Humanitarian emergency is till emerging since there has not been a ceasefire.
