World's Ebola response slow, patchy and inadequate, MSF says

From Aid | The Guardian Tue Dec 2 2014, 13:21:00

Medical NGO MSF says response by foreign countries is ill-adapted to tackling the spread of Ebola in west Africa, warning the outbreak is far from over

The medical NGO Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a scathing attack on the international community for its slow and patchy response to the effort to stamp out Ebola in west Africa.

It says the response risks creating "a double failure" because ill-equipped locals in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have been left to run hospitals and treatment centres.

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