Assessment of psychotropic medicines utilization patterns for the treatment of mental and neurological disorders in Public Hospitals of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A record-based study.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s top 10 most biodiverse places, the second largest country in Africa in a known endemic zone for several filoviruses []. It has experienced at least eight Ebola disease outbreaks in the last 10 years, one of which involved nearly 3,500 patients []. This outbreak, however, has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) []. Health emergencies are determined to be a PHEIC when international measures are deemed necessary to limit their spread and consequences. A PHEIC determination is a call to action, either for direct assistance, cooperative measures, or to solicit needed financial or other resources. Now, DRC has experienced two Ebola emergency PHEIC determinations—the current emergency and the 2018–2020 epidemic. The only other filovirus PHEIC was the West Africa 2014–6 epidemic. By some metrics, that this current emergency is a PHEIC makes complete sense. The emergency was reported to the international community on May 15, and within a week the scale of the emergency was observed to include nearly 800 suspected cases, including almost 180 deaths []. As of 17 July, DRC has experienced nearly 2,200 confirmed cases with more than 800 deaths. In ways relevant to a risk equals likelihood and consequence calculation, DRC is distinct from other settings where filovirus emergencies have occurred. Differences between DRC and other countries that have had filovirus emergencies across sub-Saharan Africa can be observed in factors that represent wealth, health and health security commitment, disease burden, and violence (). World Health Organization Global Health Observatory (); reduced to one decimal place.