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'We Need More': Fight Against Ebola Is Thin on the Ground
It’s the biggest outbreak ever of Ebola,... The virus is spreading out of control, according to all the experts involved, and there is no clear end in sight.
The casualties include health care workers on the front lines, most recently an American doctor and a hygienist colleague working for charities, and Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, the doctor leading the fight in Sierra Leone, who died.
So there must be a cast of thousands in there, deploying equipment, medications and vaccines, and dispensing advice, right?
Wrong.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent 12 people. ...
They’re not treating patients — they’re providing advice.
What about the World Health Organization? That’s a big international group. (but) ... Cutbacks in international investment have forced WHO to slash budgets. [and resources, and staff]
The rest is being covered by nonprofits, and the affected countries' health departments, which are not even close to being equipped to handle an outbreak like this.
Ebola outbreak spotlights the limits of local and international response
The epidemic has highlighted a lack of resources, preparation and infrastructure at both the regional and international levels. ...
....Border closures and the shutting down of hospitals underscore the governments’ inability to respond to the epidemic. Were the state better equipped to deal with the outbreak, anyone coming into contact with a presumed or confirmed case could be identified and isolated. The severe health worker shortage impedes capacity to do so.
Given the shortage of health workers, it is imperative that governments protect the few responders they have on the front lines. Failure to provide health workers with protective gear and adequate pay undermines the ability to curb the spread of the virus. The infection of health care providers reduces the number of personnel available to treat patients, but there are also follow-on impacts: Health workers will be wary of going to work, for example. For example, lab technicians went on strike in mid-July after the government failed to follow through on promised hazard pay for those working at Sierra Leone’s only Ebola-testing facility.
Governments cannot effectively ramp up their capacity to provide care overnight — particularly not during the throes of the worst Ebola epidemic. But they can improve their response by providing for those who are on the front lines and by shunning dramatic but empty gestures such as criminalization of health care avoidance or border closures.
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: Restricted
No one is immune to Ebola.
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originally posted by: buddha
Sighs!
Look at all the things in the wolrd killing a LOT more people.
and you worry over this?
originally posted by: buddha
Sighs!
Look at all the things in the wolrd killing a LOT more people.
and you worry over this?
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: rickymouse
a reply to: Restricted
My point is that virtually no one is immune to Ebola - so whatever judgments you make or actions you take, you MUST accept as legitmately visited on you.
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: Restricted
Bingo. And a star. Now answer the questions please! [Just copy, paste and note. Easy as pie.
originally posted by: soficrow
a reply to: 12m8keall2c
I am reacting to the fear-mongering - no one has immunity to Ebola (except maybe a few Africans) - and the questions I ask lead to unthinkable Draconian conundrums. imho It's meant to be a coyote type of heads up humor. However, seems like no one is reading the questions or if they are, they're not getting it.
So - please - if my humor if so dry as to be impenetrable, please delete the thread. Also, it just might be too badly written to be what I wanted it to be. Was po'd, didn't sit on it.
How would you know if you have the immunity to Ebola? Is there some sort of test?
originally posted by: ~Lucidity
They really should not be bringing anyone infected with ebola into the U.S. I live in Atlanta and it horrifies me that they are doing this. They've lost their bloody minds.