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Doctors Without Borders Slams International Response to Ebola
This is from last week, didn't see it posted yet:
http://www.newsweek.com/doctors-without-borders-slams-international-response-ebola-288574?piano_t=1
Doctors Without Borders Slams International Response to Ebola
By Lucy Westcott 12/2/14 at 12:23 PM
French humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lambasted the international community Tuesday for its slow and uneven response to the Ebola crisis, which has killed thousands in West Africa.
MSF, whose English name is Doctors Without Borders, criticized countries for “failing to adapt to the outbreak after failing to respond quickly enough” and leaving local people, nonprofit groups and national governments to do most of the hands-on, practical work in trying to manage the rapid spread of the deadly virus.
Among the biggest failings by the international community, MSF said in a briefing published Tuesday, are the failure to train health care workers quickly enough to staff Ebola treatment centers in the three worst-affected countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia) and a lack of support to bolster facilities in those nations.
“It is extremely disappointing that states with biological-disaster response capacities have chosen not to utilize them,” Dr. Joanne Liu, MSF international president, said in a statement. She did not specify which countries she was referring to. “How is it that the international community has left the response to Ebola, now a transnational threat, to doctors, nurses and charity workers?”
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Doctors Without Borders Slams International Response to Ebola
By Lucy Westcott 12/2/14 at 12:23 PM
French humanitarian aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) lambasted the international community Tuesday for its slow and uneven response to the Ebola crisis, which has killed thousands in West Africa.
MSF, whose English name is Doctors Without Borders, criticized countries for “failing to adapt to the outbreak after failing to respond quickly enough” and leaving local people, nonprofit groups and national governments to do most of the hands-on, practical work in trying to manage the rapid spread of the deadly virus.
Among the biggest failings by the international community, MSF said in a briefing published Tuesday, are the failure to train health care workers quickly enough to staff Ebola treatment centers in the three worst-affected countries (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia) and a lack of support to bolster facilities in those nations.
“It is extremely disappointing that states with biological-disaster response capacities have chosen not to utilize them,” Dr. Joanne Liu, MSF international president, said in a statement. She did not specify which countries she was referring to. “How is it that the international community has left the response to Ebola, now a transnational threat, to doctors, nurses and charity workers?”
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