Bad leadership cripples Ebola fight in W’Africa-MsF

She said on Friday in Geneva, after 10 days in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone that Western nations must dispatch more experts in tropical medicine, especially field workers who know how to help communities prevent the often lethal virus from spreading. Liu said WHO must fulfill its leading role in coordinating the international response to the epidemic. “I think they are in the process of bringing more people from the WHO but the reality is that this epidemic will not be contained unless there are more players. “We are missing everything right now; we are missing a strong leadership centrally, with core nation capacity and disease emergency management skills. It’s not happening,’’ she said. She said MSF (Doctors Without Borders) has deployed 1,000 of its own staff in the stricken region, running centres that currently have 300 beds.