President of Ebola-hit Liberia makes desperate appeal for help saying, ‘a generation is being lost’
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on the international community
Said Ebola has brought Liberia to ‘standstill’ and help is desperately needed
Noted that Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone were already weakened by wars
She said that as global citizens ‘we all have a stake in battle against Ebola’
Referred to the dire economic impact with harvests missed and markets shut
By Annabel Grossman
DailyMailUK
20 October 2014
The Ebola outbreak risks unleashing an economic catastrophe that will leave a ‘lost generation’ of West Africans, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said.
The president made a desperate appeal for help from every nation with the capacity to do so, describing the initial reaction as ‘inconsistent and lacking in clear direction or urgency’.
She said the international community had woken up to the global health risk posed by the epidemic but said her country had been brought to ‘a standstill’ and was desperate for funding and medical supplies.
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