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High-level Ebola meeting makes global appeal
The leaders of global financial institutions and Ebola-stricken African nations are appealing to the world to act quickly to contain history’s worst outbreak of the lethal virus.
The appeal was made on Thursday during high-level talks on the disease held on the sidelines of IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said that unless the Ebola epidemic is quickly stopped, its economic impact will reach 32.6 billion dollars by the end of next year.
He mentioned the death of the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and the case of a Spanish nurse who was infected while providing care for another Ebola patient. He warned that the infection could spread.
Guinean President Alpha Conde said the Ebola epidemic is a threat to the world and requires a global response. He called for additional financial assistance to procure medicine and train medical workers.
Nearly 4,000 people have already died of the disease in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria.
