The head of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has criticized the world’s “disastrously inadequate response” to the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
In a newspaper editorial on Monday, Mr Kim urged wealthy Western nations to share knowledge and resources to help contain the disease that has killed over 1,500 people in the worst outbreak since it was discovered in 1976.
“The crisis we are watching unfold derives less from the virus itself and more from deadly and misinformed biases that have led to a disastrously inadequate response to the outbreak,” he said.
The editorial, co-written by Harvard University Professor Paul Farmer, goes on to state that “many are dying needlessly”.
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