#RNN | #SierraLeone | Liberia | Independent: Ebola is about poverty According to an article in the Independent Ebola is about poverty. It stated, If Ebola killed rich people there would have been vaccines 10 years ago. But the affected countries are at the bottom of the UNs Human Development Index. It continued to say that more than 60 of people are below the poverty line where health budgets are a sad $20 per person per year stressing that here are just 187 doctors and 2,000 nurses in all Liberia and Sierra Leone for a population of 10 million. Thats a 10th of what the World Health Organisation says is the absolute minimum. Health services, which are appallingly over-stretched ordinarily, collapse under an epidemic on this scale. While there are small bits of good news where the rate of increase has started to slow in Liberia and Guinea the situation in Sierra Leone, where Ebola has got a grip in two urban centres, is really scary.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:52:00 +0000
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