World Bank chief urges medics to ignore fearmongering, join Ebola fight [View all]
Source: Al Jazeera
World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim made an impassioned plea Tuesday for thousands more medics to volunteer in the fight against Ebola in West Africa, calling the epidemic a global crisis that required a global response. The call to action comes as U.S. health officials warn that state policies to quarantine travellers from the region will hamper relief efforts.
Kim warned against knee-jerk panic in response to the highly contagious virus, which has killed nearly 5,000 people in the outbreak.
"This is not an African crisis... it is a global crisis," said Kim, who is visiting Ethiopia along with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
"We'll need a steady state of at least 5,000 health workers from outside the region. Those health workers cannot work continuously. There needs to be a rotation," Kim said. "So we will need many thousands of health workers over the next months to a year to bring this epidemic under control."
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