We invite our readers to have a look to this article found just now in SkyNews, where WHO is criticized after their admission.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted that it botched attempts to halt the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The UN health agency has blamed factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information, according to a draft internal document obtained by The Associated Press. "Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall," the document says. WHO admits it was "particularly alarming" that the head of its Guinea office refused to help get visas for an expert ebola team.
The organisation concedes it should have realised that traditional containment methods would not work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems. Another factor was "politically motivated appointments" to WHO country offices in Africa. Sky News Health and Science Correspondent Thomas Moore believes "simple infection control" would have stopped the virus spreading. Here he takes a look at the mistakes that have contributed to a crisis that has killed more than 4,400 people so far.
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INC News, 17/10/2014
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