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By Stella Dawson
Washington ? The Ebola epidemic is spreading so fast that it is turning into a humanitarian crisis leaving children orphaned, families hungry and people dying of treatable conditions, top health experts said on Tuesday in calling for more international aid for West Africa.
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But health experts on the front line said this assistance is not enough and not arriving fast enough to halt the spread of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.
"The deployment is not sufficient in response to the crisis," said Sophie Delaunay, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, the non-profit group that has led the response to the outbreak.
"There is not the capacity and the means to isolate the infected. The irony is that we know what needs to be done, isolate the people, but we don't know how to do it quickly," she said in a media teleconference arranged by Kaiser Family Foundation.
"The medical response has become a humanitarian crisis," he said.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201410011352.html?
Washington ? The Ebola epidemic is spreading so fast that it is turning into a humanitarian crisis leaving children orphaned, families hungry and people dying of treatable conditions, top health experts said on Tuesday in calling for more international aid for West Africa.
...
But health experts on the front line said this assistance is not enough and not arriving fast enough to halt the spread of the deadly hemorrhagic fever.
"The deployment is not sufficient in response to the crisis," said Sophie Delaunay, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, the non-profit group that has led the response to the outbreak.
"There is not the capacity and the means to isolate the infected. The irony is that we know what needs to be done, isolate the people, but we don't know how to do it quickly," she said in a media teleconference arranged by Kaiser Family Foundation.
"The medical response has become a humanitarian crisis," he said.
...
http://allafrica.com/stories/201410011352.html?