Liberia Health System Collapsing As Ebola Spreads

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
7 August 2014
Tags:
Liberia, Health and Medicine

Liberia's foreign minister said on Thursday, the health care system in Liberia is collapsing, hospitals closing down and medical workers fleeing from the Ebola epidemic, which is poised to worsen. Minister of Foreign Affairs Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan said in an interview with Thomson Reuters Foundation, "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.

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