Universal Health Coverage - Ebola Reveals the Gaps

IFRC Kenema Ebola treatment centre (File photo, October 2014)  Photo: IRIN/Ricci Shryock

LONDON, 29 December 2014 (IRIN) - West Africa's Ebola epidemic has cruelly exposed the weaknesses of health systems in the countries where it struck. It was understandable that they were not prepared for Ebola, which has never been reported in the region before, but the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan, says what they lacked was a robust public health infrastructure to deal with the unexpected.

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