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Battle against Ebola Is being lost ensures the DWB
Posted On 02 Sep 2014
AP
The Doctors Without Borders (DWB) agency said on Tuesday that the world is “losing the battle” against Ebola, and called for a world response to a global biological disaster and to provide aid in West Africa.
The international president of MSF, Joanne Liu, during a briefing at the UN headquarters in New York, said: “Six months with the worst outbreak of Ebola in history, the world is losing the battle. The leaders fail to take appropriate measures against this transnational threat. ”
“The announcement (of WHO) on August 8 that the epidemic constitutes a ‘public health emergency of international concern´ that failed to take decisive action and the states are maintained in a global coalition of inaction,” the representative added.
Liu called on the international community to fund more beds to form a regional network of field hospitals, dispatch trained personnel and deploy mobile laboratories in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.
