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Ebola outbreak: weaknesses in health-care systems in Liberia, Sierra Leone revealed
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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORP Dec. 11, 2014
GENEVA --Ebola in West Africa has made it almost impossible for people to get treatment for other ailments, health ministers from the three worst affected countries say.
The health systems in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea were barely functional before the Ebola outbreak struck.
Liberia's Chief Medical Officer, Bernice Dahn, said the country's Ebola outbreak needs to be contained and routine health-care services need to be revived. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone/Associated Press)
"We want to expand the health workforce because it's crucial for providing quality health care," Dr. Bernice Dahn, Liberia’s chief medical officer, told World Health Organization in Geneva today....
After the health ministers met with officials from WHO and the World Bank, there was broad agreement to help the countries to build new capacities for lab work, disease surveillance and basic health care to help protect the world from future emerging infectious diseases.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-outbreak-weaknesses-in-health-care-systems-in-liberia-sierra-leone-revealed-1.2870458
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Additional report on Geneva meeting on Ebola issues
CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND POLICY Lisa Schnirring Dec 12, 2014
In other Ebola developments, a Swiss trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine hit a snag, and US health officials announced that an American nurse potentially infected by Ebola would be airlifted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., for observation.
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Marie-Paule Kieny, PhD, the WHO’s assistant director general for health systems and innovation, said at a media telebriefing today that the goal of the meeting was to discuss medium-term and longer-term steps to improve the countries' response to Ebola and other health threats. Officials have agreed on some general principles, but have noted discussions should revolve around each country’s specific needs.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2014/12/who-ebola-hit-countries-air-steps-boost-health-systems