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1. “By strengthening the health-care system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to ensure access to quality care and the safety of health-care professionals, by financing medical research for local production of health-care items and medicines, by strengthening the communication system and adapting it to our people’ realities, and, finally, by creating structures for educational support that are digitally based beginning in primary school.”

   2021-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8813 (2021) · source

2. “The achievement of the fourth Sustainable Development Goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is failing in our country. Urgent solutions for improving the quality of education are needed that would enable families to work with their children in cooperation with schools, and schools to maintain ongoing contact with their pupils. That will be possible if we introduce digital support for teaching. In conclusion, if we want to achieve the Millennium Development Goals at all, we have a duty to learn from the crises we face and to develop innovative strategies for sustainable development. We therefore hope that the Council can provide genuine, effective and lasting support in the management of the pandemic, in the life of our communities and in the support provided to women, who is at the centre of family life in Africa. How?”

   2021-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8813 (2021) · source

3. “The most important lesson learned is that the national health-care system is still precarious and unable to absorb even the slightest shock. Women, who are the majority of health-care personnel, have been the most affected. Women have not only been heroines but also major victims of the pandemic. COVID-19 has had a particularly negative impact on the quality of education and on families. There are many examples of children in difficulty. During COVID, neither parents nor teachers were ready for distance learning. What level of education are we giving our children, who are like Martha, a 14-year-old girl in grade 3 of secondary school, who no longer studies math although she is still going to school? What future are we seeing for them, and particularly for these girls?”

   2021-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8813 (2021) · source

4. “That makes the following clear. First, we have not only serious problems with personal protective equipment but also communication problems in our communities. People do not believe in the disease or in the vaccine. Many hide their symptoms and do not respect social distancing. As a consequence, the weakest are seriously affected and die. Secondly, the major logistical challenges associated with care management remain the availability of oxygen, ambulances, medicines and heart monitors. Those are scarce commodities for which we urgently need support. Recently the World Bank took steps to ensure that Riposte hospitals have oxygen. However, we are seeing difficulties in the delivery of that oxygen due to the shortage of empty cylinders and the lack of transport vehicles. There is an imperative need for intra-hospital oxygen production.”

   2021-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8813 (2021) · source

5. “We are telling these stories because we believe that the international community, represented here, can and must engage by way of strong resolutions aimed at the improvement of our communities’ health- care and educational systems. Let me tell you about Godelive and Thérèse, who are in charge of infection control and prevention in one of the largest COVID centres in the city-province of Kinshasa, the Ngaliema clinic. That centre experienced large-scale contamination of health-care personnel owing due to a lack of adequate protective equipment. Ten nurses from the same unit were infected by an unknown COVID patient. Women then mobilized, and, in the space of a month, Godelive and Thérèse organized cascade training for more than 300 hospital staff. After that, we had no further serial contaminations at the level of care units.”

   2021-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8813 (2021) · source

6. “I am honoured to address the Security Council about the challenges that women have faced since the beginning of the pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I speak to the Council as a doctor; a social actor, through the MEJI Foundation, of which I am co-President; and as a woman. Through a variety of experiences, we have been able to identify the major difficulties encountered during the management of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis in both professional and family spheres, difficulties that have made such management into a titanic daily ordeal. Faced with those challenges, women have risen up against COVID-19 despite their small numbers, despite prejudice, despite the fear of death. I should like to tell the Council about those heroines, those in the shadows who through their acts of bravery have saved lives.”

   2021-07-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8813 (2021) · source