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The world’s “disastrously inadequate response” to west Africa’s Ebola outbreak means many are dying needlessly, the head of the World Bank said on Monday.
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim said Western healthcare facilities could easily contain the disease and urged wealthy nations to share knowledge and resources to help African countries tackle it.
“The crisis we are watching unfold derives less from the virus and more from deadly and misinformed biases that have led to a disastrously inadequate response to the outbreak,” Mr Kim claimed in the Washington Post.
He co-wrote the story with Harvard University Professor Paul Farmer, with whom he founded Partners In Health, a charity that works for improved healthcare in poorer countries.
The pair said that if international organisations and wealthy nations mounted a co-ordinated response with west African nations, fatalities could drop from 50 per cent to below 20 per cent.
