Thousands of medical staff needed in Ebola-affected regions
10 October 2014
Thousands of medical workers and specially trained emergency staff are needed to combat the growing threat from Ebola, according to the leaders of the three worst affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Fri, 10 Oct 2014
Thousands of medical workers and specially trained emergency staff are needed to combat the growing threat from Ebola, according to the leaders of the three worst affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The Ebola outbreak has so far killed more than 3,800 people and infected more than 8,000.
“Our people are dying, children are being orphaned. Without you we cannot succeed,” Sierra Leone’s president Ernest Bai Koroma told a special session of the IMF/World Bank in Washington.
A report in Friday’s Guardian newspaper claimed Madrid’s Carlos III hospital was desperately searching for trained personnel to deal with suspected Ebola patients after some staff members refused to attend to possible cases.
Eight people were quarantined, including four health workers who treated Teresa Romero Ramos, the Spanish nurse who contracted the virus after treating an Ebola patient repatriated from Sierra Leone.
But since the death of a US citizen in a Texas hospital, and the ongoing treatment of nurse Ramos, the threat has raised the fear levels in the developed world.
The US and the UK have only just committed military forces to help cope with the growing catastrophe in West Africa, and international organisations are only now increasing funding and resources across the three affected countries.
And with cases and fears beginning to grow outside the affected areas, it is clear the outbreak is becoming a global emergency.
Thousands of medical workers and specially trained emergency staff are needed to combat the growing threat from Ebola, according to the leaders of the three worst affected countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
The Ebola outbreak has so far killed more than 3,800 people and infected more than 8,000.
“Our people are dying, children are being orphaned. Without you we cannot succeed,” Sierra Leone’s president Ernest Bai Koroma told a special session of the IMF/World Bank in Washington.
A report in Friday’s Guardian newspaper claimed Madrid’s Carlos III hospital was desperately searching for trained personnel to deal with suspected Ebola patients after some staff members refused to attend to possible cases.
Eight people were quarantined, including four health workers who treated Teresa Romero Ramos, the Spanish nurse who contracted the virus after treating an Ebola patient repatriated from Sierra Leone.
But since the death of a US citizen in a Texas hospital, and the ongoing treatment of nurse Ramos, the threat has raised the fear levels in the developed world.
The US and the UK have only just committed military forces to help cope with the growing catastrophe in West Africa, and international organisations are only now increasing funding and resources across the three affected countries.
And with cases and fears beginning to grow outside the affected areas, it is clear the outbreak is becoming a global emergency.
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