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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts) Tue Oct 7, 2014, 08:25 AM Oct 2014

Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone officials in aid row; aid shipment stranded

Unbelievable!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29519704
BBC News - Africa
7 October 2014
Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone officials in aid row

A container of aid materials designed to help fight the Ebola outbreak is at the centre of a political row in Sierra Leone.

The $500,000 (£311,000) shipment - which include mattresses, stretchers and health worker protection kits - has been stranded at the port of the capital Freetown for weeks.

An opposition politician says the government is refusing to clear it.

But a health ministry official said the delivery was approved two weeks ago.... MORE at link posted above.

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Global Links,Pittsburgh, sent container of supplies for health care workers babydollhead Oct 2014 #1

babydollhead

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1. Global Links,Pittsburgh, sent container of supplies for health care workers

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Tue Oct 7, 2014, 08:59 AM

Oct 2014

http://www.globallinks.org/
Global Links filled a container to send to Sierra Leone, a few weeks ago. There was talk, that maybe some of the protective gear should remain here in the US. Off it went. I wonder if some of these supplies are being held up at the port.

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