Ebola outbreak: weaknesses in health-care systems in Liberia, Sierra Leone revealed

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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