Liberia on Saturday in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, a virus that has killed nearly 1,000 people in the three countries this year. The Liberia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, said on Friday in Washington that health care system in Liberia has collapsed over the Ebola epidemic.Ngafuan said hospitals were closing down and medical workers fleeing from the Ebola epidemic, which is poised to worsen.“People are dying from common diseases because the health care system is collapsing. It is going to have a long-term impact, even after this crisis is behind us.“Treatable diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea are left untended because frightened Liberians are shunning medical centres. “It is like you are pressing the pause button on the general economic activity.“Schools are not opening. People are in quarantine. They are not coming to work. It is going to have an impact,”Ngafuan said.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:00:55 +0000