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Exclusive: Liberia health system collapsing as Ebola spreads

Started by riky, August 08, 2014, 09:00:25 AM

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Exclusive: Liberia health system collapsing as Ebola spreads

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-liberia-health-system-collapsing-ebola-spreads-210034626.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/GZgVcJC0DuCTl5FGJh5nkw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-08-07T210034Z_1_LYNXMPEA7613F_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA-LIBERIA.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Samaritan's Purse medical personnel demonstrates personal protective equipment to educate volunteers on the Ebola virus in Liberia, in this undated handout photo" align="left" title="A Samaritan's Purse medical personnel demonstrates personal protective equipment to educate volunteers on the Ebola virus in Liberia, in this undated handout photo" border="0" /></a>By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The health care system in Liberia is collapsing, hospitals closing down and medical workers fleeing from the Ebola epidemic, which is poised to worsen, Liberia’s foreign minister said on Thursday. “People are dying from common diseases because the health care system is collapsing,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan said in an interview with Thomson Reuters Foundation. “It is going to have a long-term impact, even after this crisis is behind us.” Treatable diseases such as malaria and diarrhea are left untended because frightened Liberians are shunning medical centers, and these deaths could outstrip those from the Ebola virus by three or four fold, he said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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