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

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Fri, 2014-12-12 10:19 — mike kraft

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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.

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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Fri, 2014-12-12 22:34 — mike kraft

CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND POLICY        Lisa Schnirring                                       Dec 12, 2014

GENEVA-- Ar a two day meeting at World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva Thusday, top health officials from the three hardest-hit Ebola countries and global health officials started formal discussions on strengthening health systems to recover from the outbreak and prepare for future threats.

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.

WHO meeting

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

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