VOICE OF AMERICA Oct. 31, 2014
By Al Pessin
The international community must do more to fill "alarming gaps" in the fight against the Ebola epidemic, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said to an audience in Brussels as she headed home from a visit to the three hardest-hit countries in West Africa.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks during a lecture regarding the Ebola virus at the Residence Palace in Brussels, Oct. 30, 2014.
Power said the initial international response is making a difference, and has created what she called “the first tangible signs that the virus can and will be beaten.”
But, she said, many countries have not done enough, and urged them to not assume the job is done...
She called for more flexible planning, faster decision-making, and for support for the affected countries as they try to rebuild and expand their health care systems. Those systems were inadequate before the epidemic and have now been devastated by the deaths of hundreds of doctors and nurses.
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