1,400 Are Dead From Ebola and We Need Help, Says Doctors Without Borders President…(True Numbers Much Higher!!)
Dr. Joanne Liu
Time.com
Aug. 21, 2014
The epidemic won’t be contained without more treatment centers, coordinated action, logistical assets and health workers
Entire families are being wiped out. Health workers are dying by the dozens. The Ebola outbreak raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has already killed more people than any other in history, and it continues to spread unabated.
And the death toll is being exacerbated by an emergency unfolding within an emergency.
People are also dying from easily preventable and treatable diseases like malaria and diarrhea because fear of contamination has closed medical facilities, leading to the effective collapse of health systems. While I was in Liberia last week, six pregnant women lost their babies over the course of a single day for lack of a hospital to admit them and manage their complications.
The Rest…HERE
