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WHO and PAHO support ALBA efforts to
combat Ebola
The
Director-General of the World Health Organization
(WHO), Margaret Chan, thanked Cuba for its rapid
response to the Ebola epidemic, by sending medical
personnel to western Africa, as well as the members
of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our
America-Peoples Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) for
the
timely
meeting organized to address
the threat of the
Ebola
virus.
In a
message to those attending the Extraordinary Summit
of the ALBA-TCP on Ebola, Chan stated that both the
WHO and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
supported the ALBA-TCP initiative to prevent the
spread of the virus.
She
noted that no country is 100% protected and that
each region must take logical and necessary measures
to avoid the spread of the disease.
Chan
also expressed the need to increase health
surveillance at airports in each country in order to
protect populations, train medical staff and ensure
the prevention of Ebola.
She highlighted that Ebola
is a deadly
pathogen that
has sparked
the most serious
health emergency that
exists today, with
over 4,000
people already dead. |
