"Your response to Ebola is slower than the virus" - Sierra Leonean President blasts global inaction on Ebola outbreak

"Your response to Ebola very is slower than virus" - Sierra Leonean President blasts global inaction on Ebola outbreak

Sierra Leonean president, Ernest Bai Koroma has blasted the global community over the lacklustre attitude it has adopted over the Ebola outbreak ravaging his country and other neighbouring countries in West Africa. Koroma stated that the global response to the Ebola epidemic Thursday was slower than the transmission of the virus.


 "This slower-than-the-virus response needs to change,"Koroma told the heads of the United Nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington via videoconference.
 "Our people are dying,'' Koro stated, alluding to the number of people that have fallen victim of the deadly virus. World Health Organisation (WHO) latest figures, show that at least 3,865 people have been killed by the Ebola virus, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Koroma said the world is not responding fast enough as doctors and nurses continue to die. A Uganda-born doctor, John Taban Dada, died early on Thursday of Ebola at a treatment centre on the outskirts of Liberian capital, Monrovia. He is the fourth doctor to die in the West African country since the outbreak. Over ninety health workers, including nurses and physician's assistants, were killed by the virus.

The President of World Bank,  Jim Yong Kim corroborated Koroma's stand. "Ladies and gentleman, unless we quickly contain and stop the Ebola epidemic, nothing less than the future of not only West Africa - but perhaps even Africa is at stake," Kim said on Thursday at a meeting on the Ebola response.