Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone: Irish Ambassador

10:00 am

Photo of Pat BreenPat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will start the ball rolling. I want to refer in particular to the Médecins Sans Frontières report published yesterday which stated that many of the governments in the region ignored the early warning that was a serious epidemic in the region. That three months delay in responding, particularly in Guinea, caused many problems and caused the disease to spread particularly into countries. The report also highlighted the slow response of the World Health Organization.

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