IT has become abundantly clear that the best way to approach the curtailment of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) outbreak is to organise a combined regional effort against it. It is time that an emergency session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in tandem with other vulnerable countries in the Central Africa zone, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and our immediate eastern neighbour, Cameroon, is held.
We should be able to forge a common front and strategies to confront this medical emergency. Ebola seems poised to assume the potential of a runaway epidemic, and a way to fight it is for a summit of health ministers accompanying presidents of the sub-regions to be organised.
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