Doctors Without Borders chief: World losing battle with Ebola now
RT.com
September 22, 2014
While the world is preoccupied with Islamic State or political games around Ukraine, there’s another threat emerging from the West Africa – where people are dying by hundreds, reaped by the deadliest Ebola epidemic to be ever known to mankind. Efforts to contain it end in a failure, and the vaccine is nonexistent yet. Are we seeing another pandemic slowly growing up to strike at mankind? What should be done to stop it? What does it mean to be a doctor in a place where death reigns? We try to find out this together with the head of the Médecins Sans Frontières – Doctors Without Borders. Dr. Joanne Liu is on Sophie&Co today.
Sophie Shevardnadze: Dr. Joanne Liu, head of International NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as “Doctors without Borders” – welcome to the program, it’s really great to have you with us today. Now, you recently arrived back from Liberia, which is ravaged by Ebola – but you also worked in other epidemic-affected areas, like Haiti, for example – how is this one different?
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