Liu Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/liu/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Liu Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/liu/ 32 32 We’re losing the war against Ebola – MSF https://jjcornish.com/2014/09/losing-war-ebola-msf/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/09/losing-war-ebola-msf/ International medical charity Medicines Sans Frontiers says the world’s losing the battle against the worst Ebola virus outbreak the planet has seen. Dr Joanne LiuĀ  tells the United Nations that fighting the epidemic will require military backed massive deployment of specialised medical units to bolster facilities fighting the disease in West Africa. In its most […]

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International medical charity Medicines Sans Frontiers says the world’s losing the battle against the worst Ebola virus outbreak the planet has seen.
Dr Joanne LiuĀ  tells the United Nations that fighting the epidemic will require military backed massive deployment of specialised medical units to bolster facilities fighting the disease in West Africa.

In its most damning assessment yet of the fight against the Ebola outbreak, MSF says itstreatment centers are reduced to places where people go to die alone – where little more than palliative care is offered.
Dr Joanne Liu, the organisation’s international president tells the UN it’s become impossible to keep up with the sheer numbers of infected people pouring into the MSF facilities.
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She says Despite repeated calls by MSF for a massive mobilisation on the ground, the international response has been lethally inadequate.

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