03 September 2014 ¦ WASHINGTON - The United Nations’ senior leadership on Ebola today said they could stop the Ebola outbreak in west Africa in 6 to 9 months, but only if a “massive” global response is implemented.
In a Washington, D.C. news conference, Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, said the Ebola outbreak is “the largest, most complex and most severe we’ve ever seen” and is racing ahead of control efforts.
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她表示，落实世卫组织用来协调并扩大国际应对的新路线图，将有助于受疫情影响国家阻止现行疾病传播。
Implementing the new WHO roadmap to coordinate and scale up international response will help the affected countries stop ongoing transmission, she said.
Dr David Nabarro, UN Coordinator for the Ebola Response, said the United Nations system is working together on 12 detailed steps for the global response, which he estimated will cost at least US $600 million and require “several thousand people to scale up our response by 3 to 4 times.”
WHO Assistant Director-General for Global Health Security, Keiji Fukuda, who just returned from west Africa, said, “We don’t have enough health workers, doctors, nurses, drivers, and contact tracers” to handle the increasing number of cases.
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“多数感染发生在社区，且许多人并不愿意自称患病。
“Most of the infections are happening in the community, and many people are unwilling to identify themselves as ill. And if they do, we don’t have enough ambulances to transport them or beds to treat them yet,” he said.
Dr Fukuda said that insufficient health personnel and facilities to care for the growing number of cases was fueling the spread of the epidemic, as families are forced to care for patients at home, putting them and their contacts at risk of contagion.