The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, has warned the global community to isolate the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) through a swift and collective international effort and not the countries affected by the Ebola epidemic.
Speaking at the 2014 annual meetings of the IMF/World Bank, Yong Kim described Ebola as a worse epidemic than HIV/AIDS and called on individuals, nations and groups across the globe to pick up the pace and deploy every human and material resources required to stop the disease from further spreading in the affected countries and beyond.
“Let’s pick up the pace and do whatever it takes to stop this outbreak. When your house is on fire, you don’t put up a wet towel underneath the door. You send firefighters. It’s the same with the fight against Ebola. We need to send in large numbers of trained health workers, who can extinguish the outbreak. The way to fight Ebola isn’t to close off borders. Instead, we need to offer the best treatment possible for those infected inside the most affected countries. We should isolate Ebola, not Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. We also should once again remind everyone that Africa remains open for business, and that our projections for economic growth for 2015 and 2016 are 5.2 per cent annually, up from 4.6 per cent this year,” Kim said.
“If you have anything to do, do it now. The more you wait, the worse it gets," the World Bank Chief concluded.
Ebola has killed over 3,400 since its outbreak especially in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. And has recently hit Spain and United States of America.
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