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MSF: Boots on the Ground Need to Move
MSF had harsh words for the US military effort to counter West Africa’s Ebola threat, saying it must do more than “transport cement.”
While emphasizing the military’s contributions were welcome from the beginning, MSF’s Executive Director Sophie Delaunay especially criticized the US for leaving too much of the work to NGOs, doctors, and nurses—focusing on buildings at the staffing. Furthermore, she said that the funds promised 3 months ago were so slow to start flowing that by the time they arrived, the needs had profoundly shifted.
A key problem is that most US resources were concentrated in Liberia, but now the needs are greater in Sierra Leone. “Now that [the funding] is being implemented on the ground, due to evolving nature of the outbreak, the needs have changed,” Delaunay said.
MSF criticized the pace of international funding in general in a ** report it released earlier (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
this week.
** The Hill (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: Ebola in graphics: The toll of a tragedy – ** The Economist (http://jhsph.us3.list-
Related: Ebola in Liberia: An Epidemic of Rumors – ** New York Review of Books (http://jhsph.us3.list-
Related: Ebola Free-for-All Could Trigger Bad Science and Wasted Efforts – ** Scientific American (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: New 15-minute test for Ebola to be trialled in Guinea – ** Global Health Hub (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
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