Sunday, September 14, 2014 2:57:54 PM
The number of new Ebola cases in West Africa is growing faster than authorities can manage them, the World Health Organization said, renewing a call for health workers from around the world to go to the region.
As the death toll rose to more than 2,400 out of 4,784 cases, WHO director general Margaret Chan told a news conference in Geneva the vast nature of the outbreak — particularly in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — required a massive emergency response.
But the job is a risky one: Almost half of the 301 healthcare workers who have developed the disease have died.
Sarah Crowe, a spokeswoman for UNICEF, said Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia are full. “Families need help in finding new ways to deal with this and deal with their loved ones and give them care without exposing themselves to this infection.
“It is quite surreal and everywhere there is a sense of this virus taking over the whole country,” Crowe said. “We do not have enough partners on the ground. Many Liberians say they feel abandoned.”
Survivors of the disease, who are immune to reinfection, were being used to look after thousands of children of people with suspected Ebola. About 2,000 children have lost one or both parents in Liberia alone, she said.
The key to beating the disease, said the WHO’s Chan, was people power. Pledges of equipment and money are coming in, but 500-600 foreign experts and at least 1,000 local health workers are needed on the ground.
“The number of new patients is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them. We need to surge at least three to four times to catch up with the outbreaks,” Chan said.
http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/international/2014/09/14/ebola-monrovia-virus-taking-over/
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