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Thousands of Health Care Workers Needed in Global Effort to Stop Ebola Outbreak
By Lucy Westcott
Filed: 9/4/14 at 2:22 PM
The Ebola outbreak can be stopped in six to nine months, but only if a ?massive? global response is initiated, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
The scale of response needs to be three to four times what it is now, as the United Nations works to piece together a $600 million road map to control the disease and put an end to new transmissions, WHO officials said.
?We don?t have enough health workers, doctors, nurses, drivers and contact tracers? to handle the increasing number of cases,? said the WHO?s assistant director-general for global health security, Keiji Fukuda. ?Most of the infections are happening in the community, and many people are unwilling to identify themselves as ill. And if they do, we don?t have enough ambulances to transport them or beds to treat them yet.?...
Thousands of Health Care Workers Needed in Global Effort to Stop Ebola Outbreak
By Lucy Westcott
Filed: 9/4/14 at 2:22 PM
The Ebola outbreak can be stopped in six to nine months, but only if a ?massive? global response is initiated, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
The scale of response needs to be three to four times what it is now, as the United Nations works to piece together a $600 million road map to control the disease and put an end to new transmissions, WHO officials said.
?We don?t have enough health workers, doctors, nurses, drivers and contact tracers? to handle the increasing number of cases,? said the WHO?s assistant director-general for global health security, Keiji Fukuda. ?Most of the infections are happening in the community, and many people are unwilling to identify themselves as ill. And if they do, we don?t have enough ambulances to transport them or beds to treat them yet.?...