In pictures: Surviving Congo

The shelves of the Misoke clinic are virtually empty of medication, except for the most basic painkillers.

A handful of patients lie in the ward on simple and dirty bamboo stretchers.

A young man, hooked up to an intravenous drip bottle with saline solution, grimaces in pain.

"He fell ill with malaria and self-medicated with quinine," says nurse Ngegele Masasa.

"But he overdosed and now he is very sick."