Decontamination is one of the pillars of the Ebola response. A contaminated health centre can contribute to spreading the virus and reduces access to medical care for everyone in the area.

Almost six months after the declaration of the Ebola epidemic in northeastern DRC, response teams on the ground are still struggling to gain control of the outbreak. So far, 619 people have been infected with the virus and 361 have died in what is the second-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded since the virus was discovered in the country in 1976.