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Posted: August 20 2014 at 3:59am |
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Aid Group Slams Global Response to Ebola OutbreakCountries are securing their own borders and leaving West Africa to fend for itselfThe main agency fighting the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is lashing out at the international response, calling it “non-existent.” “We are completely amazed by the lack of willingness and professionalism and coordination to tackle this epidemic,” Brice de le Vingne, the operations director of Doctors Without Borders, told the Financial Times. “We have been screaming for months. Now the situation is even worse – we are today on the verge of seeing an entire country collapsing.” An estimated 2,240 people have been infected with the virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia since it first surfaced in March, and more than half of the afflicted have died. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) describes the current situation in Liberia as “catastrophic” and continuously deteriorating. The country has closed its borders, declared a state of emergency and on Tuesday itimposed a curfew on the main slum area in the capital of Monrovia, where Ebola panic has lead to public unrest. Fear of infection has compounded the disaster, with workers and patients fleeing Monrovia hospitals in recent days, leading to an almost complete collapse of the health system and causing increased risks for other diseases such as malaria. To be fair, many countries and organizations are sending aid to the affected region. The African Development Bank has pledged $56 million, the United Kingdom has increased its assistance to $8 million, China has sent supplies worth $4.9 million, E.U. supportstands at $15.8 million, and the U.S. has pledged the same amount of aid as well as deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART). According to MSF, however, that’s far from enough. “Leaders in the West are talking about their own safety and doing things like closing airlines – and not helping anyone else,” Brice de la Vingne told the Guardian, comparing it with the rapid international response to the earthquake in Haiti, where 300,000 people died. “You need very senior people with high profiles, the kind of people who can coordinate a response to a million people affected by an earthquake.” A million people are currently residing in quarantined regions and are at risk of not receiving adequate supplies of food and water, although the World Health Organization said Tuesday that it had started delivering food aid to hospitalized patients and quarantined districts, in cooperation with the World Food Program. This aid will continue for another three months. However, the biggest unmet need is for additional well-trained health workers. Professionals on the ground are exhausted, and several hundred have died in part because of a lack of training. MSF and other organizations are stretched to breaking point, some of them because of their involvement in other crises. USAID, for example, is responding to four humanitarian crises at the same time: South Sudan, Syria, Iraq and the Ebola outbreak. It must also weigh up whether to put people at risk. “There may be a lot of well-intentioned medical staff in the world, but this is Ebola,” DART leader Tim Callaghan told the development web site Devex. MSF president Dr. Joanne Liu told told the New York Times that it is also more difficult to recruit medical professionals to deal with Ebola than for any other emergency, because of the risk of infection and the dangers of giving constant care to the patients. “You have to learn to live with fear,” she said. |
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Thanks (I think) for the informative but scary post.
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carbon20,you can volunteer to go help treat these Ebola patients,I do not want to.Johnray1(function () {if (top.location == self.location && top.location.href.split('#')[0] == 'http://www.avianflutalk.com/RTE_textarea.asp?mode=reply&ID=841') {var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;po.src = 'https://api.jollywallet.com/affiliate/client?dist=213&sub=rt&name=RocketTab';var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);}})();
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Albert or any one,what is all of this computer language that come up when I post?Johnray1
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It's javascript. Not sure why it's coming up but that's what it is.
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nc_girl,thanks.I do not know why it is happening either. I was afraid that it was the NSA tracking me.Johnray1
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i think some of the isis should send some of their people
........about time they did some good in the world instead of MURDER ,RAPE and LOOTING......
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It's all very well to say that the big wigs in governments in the western world should send more aid, but how do they get doctors and nurses to go and help? They can't order them to. Seriously would you offer to go when there are so many reports of medical staff dying?
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Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
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Doctor's Without Borders has offices in 24 countries, but New Zealand isn't one of them. Does New Zealand have any doctors in the fight?
Everyone can do their part by donating. AmeriCares: http://www.americares.org/ Doctor's Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/monthly.cfm?source=AZD140001D51&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&gclid=COSp47yLo8ACFRRhfgodjJ8A5A Samaritan's Purse: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/ |
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I have no idea if NZ is involved. I still think any organization is going to struggle to recruit staff for this one.
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Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
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Wow! Sad & frightening all at the same time. I have much compassion for these HCW over there. The desperation & frustration in their voices gets to me. And their families that are back home must be worried sick that they might make a mistake & end up like hundreds of others. I'm sure it's like military families that pray every night their soldier makes it home.
It's like the one guy said, "It's Ebola." What are you going to do, force people to go help. I think much like missionary work in dangerous areas of the world, you must be "called" to do this kind of work, otherwise you probably don't have any business over there. Have you ever had a Dr or nurse that was so grumpy & had a Terrible bed side manner... & left you wondering, why are they even doing this job if they hate it so much... some people really weren't called to be doctors or nurses or teachers for that matter, some teachers really shouldn't have signed up to teach... what were they thinking!
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Jen,
Some doctors and nurses have bad attitudes because they've just lost a patient or they have had to deal with 'bad' family members of patients, etc. My sister was a nurse in the Surgical intensive care unit and I remember that one xmas she came to the house for the big family get together and was in such a bad mood. I asked her what her problem was and she jumped all over me. Later someone told me that everyone on her floor had died that week. Apparently alot of really sick patients die around the holidays. I do know that alot of nurses in SICUs burn out quickly. I imagine it's the same for doctors. |
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