The World Health Organization bungled its
response to the growing epidemic of Ebola in West Africa by relying too
much on slow diplomacy and an over-sensitivity to local politics, a new
report says.
But the countries themselves acted slowly, and
the report also places blame on world governments as a whole, which have
underfunded WHO and left it weak and inept.
"The Panel believes that this is a defining
moment for the health of the global community. WHO must re-establish its
pre-eminence as the guardian of global public health; this will require
significant changes throughout WHO," the report from an independent,
international panel reads.
"The world simply cannot afford another period of inaction until the next health crisis."
WHO officials have admitted several times they were too slow to act
when Ebola started to spread in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. It's
now infected more than 27,500 people and killed more than 11,000 of
them.
Full article available here: Slowed WHO's Ebola Reponse
Source: NBC News
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