Daniel Kubuya Mastaki, 46, is the first to die from the disease in the city of Goma after he contracted it while praying for people in the Butembo area, north of Goma.
The Ebola outbreak was declared a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday after news of the pastor’s death.
The WHO said they were also disappointed at the delays of funding a good response.
The pastor was working in Butembo and was praying for people who were sick before he travelled to Goma, on the border with Rwanda, by bus.
Esperant Mulumba, Christian Aid’s Acting Country Manager for the Democratic Republic of Congo, told Premier’s News Hour how Daniel Kubuya Mastaki contracted the deadly disease: “This pastor had been in the Butembo area where he was ministering and he was working.
“He was praying for people that were sick and among the people that he was praying for were Ebola patients. It is said that he had physical contact with the patients, with the Ebola cases, as he was praying for them – as he touched them during the prayer session – and later on travelled from Butembo to Goma with a group of around 18 people in a minivan.
“Upon arrival, he presented some symptoms, but first went home to try and see if there was a way to manage it with usual household drugs and when this was not possible he went into a medical facility that…
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