Sunday 25 January 2015

Ebola mistakes should serve a lesson says WHO

Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, has her temperature measured during a visit to an Ebola medical unit on December 19, 2014, in the Liberian capital Monrovia The World Health Organization's chief admitted on Sunday that the UN agency had been caught napping on Ebola, saying it should serve as a lesson to avoid similar mistakes in future. Despite turning the corner in the fight against Ebola, there was no room for complacency, WHO head Margaret Chan told a rare emergency session of the agency. "The world, including WHO, was too slow to see what was unfolding before us," she told delegates at only the third emergency session in the history of WHO. "Ebola is a tragedy that has taught the world, including WHO, many lessons also about how to prevent similar events in the future," she said.




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