MPs in the British parliament?s International Development Committee said they were surprised to discover during a recent visit to Liberia that only $3.9 million out of $60 million given by the European Union (EU) to support the health sector in the country was passed on by the country?s Ministry of Finance over a two-year period.
?This failure placed many of the gains made by earlier DfID [Department for International Development] programmes at risk and left the Liberian health system struggling even before Ebola struck,? the Committee said.
?The spread of Ebola has clearly demonstrated the importance that governments of developing countries need to attach to health system spending.
?We have to ask whether Liberia would have dealt better with the original outbreak and prevent its spread had $56 million from the EU been spent as intended by the Liberian Ministry of Finance on its health system.
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?This failure placed many of the gains made by earlier DfID [Department for International Development] programmes at risk and left the Liberian health system struggling even before Ebola struck,? the Committee said.
?The spread of Ebola has clearly demonstrated the importance that governments of developing countries need to attach to health system spending.
?We have to ask whether Liberia would have dealt better with the original outbreak and prevent its spread had $56 million from the EU been spent as intended by the Liberian Ministry of Finance on its health system.
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