‘I survived Ebola; now my blood fights the disease’

Nobel Mabanzi, who survived Ebola in Kikwit  [  PHOTO  ; STANDARD]

DRC: Nobel Mabanzi had a passion for medicine. Growing up in Kikwit, a dusty town some 700km south west of Kinshasa – about the distance from Nairobi to Malindi - Mabanzi found himself years later in the storm of the world’s most deadly virus attack.

Mabanzi, 44, now the dean of studies at the Kikwit School of Nursing, was then a young student just out of nursing school. “I had chosen to pursue a career as a lab technician.”