We Are Losing Battle Against Ebola, MSF Reveals

A grim picture has been painted of the fight against Ebola in West Africa as international medical agency, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), aka Doctors without Borders, has said that the battle to contain the disease is currently being lost.

This was stated by the MSF International President, Joanne Liu during a UN briefing in New York.

She said:

“Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Leaders are failing to come to grips with this transnational threat,” said.

“The (World Health Organization) announcement on August 8 that the epidemic constituted a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ has not led to decisive action, and states have essentially joined a global coalition of inaction.”

The MSF also released a statement saying that Liberia’s capital, Monrovia is in acute crisis. The organization’s coordinator at the ELWA Three Ebola unit in Monrovia, Stefan Liljegren said:

“Every day we have to turn sick people away because we are too full”

The official MSF statement says:

“In Sierra Leone, highly infectious bodies are rotting in the streets

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ebola has infected 3,062 people in West Africa, 1,552 of which have died.