The World Health Organization is to hold an emergency meeting as the global community ratchets up its response to Ebola. Liberians have told DW the help was commendable, despite delays, reports GHN based on DW.
The World Health Organization's (WHO) emergency committee on Ebola will meet on Wednesday (22.10.2014) to review the scope of the outbreak and to determine whether additional steps are needed.
The 20 independent experts. who declared the outbreak in West Africa an international public health emergency on August 8, can recommend trade and travel restrictions. The committee has already recommended exit screening of passengers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Experts say screening air travelers on their departure from Ebola-hit countries would be far smarter than monitoring them when they arrive at their destinations.
An analysis published in the medical journal The Lancet said screening on exit would entail monitoring in just three international airports in Conakry, Monrovia and Freetown. Screening on arrival at a far greater number of airports would require far greater resources.
European health ministers, meanwhile, agreed last week to launch a review of exit screen measures in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.