Ebola: W.H.O Says Africa Needs $98 Million To Contain Disease Next Month - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
Editor 2
June 17, 2019
The World HealthOrganisation, WHO has revealed that ninety eight  million dollars, aboutthirty five billion naira is needed to contain the ravaging Ebola VirusDisease, EVD in Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC and Uganda as well asother susceptible nations in Africa and parts of the world.
It, however, regrettedthe availability of only less than one-third of the sum, leaving behind ashortfall of fifty four million dollars, about nineteen billion naira.
A meeting of theEmergency Committee convened by its Director-General, Tedros AdhanomGhebreyesus under the International Health Regulations, 2005, urged countriesand responding partners to heed a number of counsel.They include improvingpreparedness for detecting and managing exported cases; continuous cross-borderscreening; risk-detecting population movements and sociological patterns;approvals for investigational medicines and vaccines and rapid implementationof optimal vaccine strategies sanctioned by W.H.O’s Strategic Advisory Group ofExperts.