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[quote=Anonymous][b]SOS FROM LIBERIA: WHO, OTHERS MUST STEP IN BEFORE WE ALL DIE[/b]

Written by FPA Editorial

Published: 17 August 2014

http://frontpageafricaonline.com/index.php/politic/2680-an-sos-from-liberia-who-others-must-intervene-before-we-all-die

[quote]Judging from what happened in Monrovia last week, self-seeking presidential aides and kitchen Cabinet officials will shortly conclude and run to the president to say that this is a call for an interim government. IT IS NOT!!!.

This is an honest and sincere appeal to international humanitarian groups and the WHO to move in and for the president to dissolve her "Special Ebola Task Force because they have all failed and appear incapable of solving this plague killing our people and flirting with anarchy.

THIS IS AN URGENT SOS call to the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and every international humanitarian organization to please intervene in Liberia before Africa’s oldest republic loses its entire population.

THE UNITED NATIONS must immediately call for the disbandment of the Liberian government task force and replace it with an international medical and management team capable of righting the wrongs by the post-war nation’s health system and saving many more Liberians from losing their lives.

WHAT HAPPENED last Saturday at a makeshift Ebola center in West Point is from our perspective the last straw that has broken whatever back this country or its government had in curbing further spread and containing this deadly plague that has so far killed more than 2000 people in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, since it emerged in February.

WHEN RESIDENTS in one of Liberia’s most populous and disease-infected areas run amok against an initiative undertaken by a volunteer nurse, who simply tried to do right for his people with a self-initiative isolation center because the government had turned its backs on the people, [b]it is time for the international players to step in. [/b]
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[quote]BLAIR GLENCORSE AND BROOKS HARMON, writing in the current edition of Foreign Policy magazine said it rightly: “The Ebola crisis is quickly exposing how rapidly progress can be undermined, however, when it is not grounded in a fair, inclusive social compact between governments and their citizens. It is no coincidence that, in the countries at the heart of the outbreak, large groups of people have been systematically excluded from power and decision-making at all levels for decades. This means many citizens are unwilling to believe that the government can serve their interests. The health system in Liberia is a case in point. Despite millions of dollars of investment in the decade before the Ebola outbreak, there were only 150 trained doctors in the entire country of 3.5 million people. As a result, access to services is inevitably exclusionary, lending itself to networks of corruption as patients do anything they can to receive care.”

WHEN THE CASUALTY numbers in neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea where the outbreak started, continue to drop and Liberia’s numbers continue to climb, it is time for international players to step in.

WHEN AFTER watching all of the colleagues die and isolated by a government which failed to provide simple gloves and mask, which nurse or doctor in the right mind would want to return to work when a government makes promises to make conditions better in the absence of insurance or a guarantee to healthworkers family that they will be taken care of in the event of death? 
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[quote]THIS IS NOT a Brad Pitt fighting zombies in the movie, World War Z; or Morgan Freeman and Dustin Freeman on opposing sides of a deadly plague in Outbreak; or even Matt Damon fighting to save his family and the world in the Ebola-like Contagion movie. [b]This is Liberia on the verge of extinction[/b], if the world sits idly by and wait for this Liberian government which has been given all the goodwill and international aid, to get it right.[/quote]
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