“the United States built 11 treatment units in Liberia, drawing from the $1.4 billion allotted for the Ebola mission. Eighty percent of those units have never seen a single Ebola patient.
This may seem shocking, but it actually shouldn't be.
The timelines of global health and short-term-ism of politics are usually not aligned. World leaders react to global health crises slowly (instead of taking a proactive approach), and they prioritize politically expedient (read: ineffective but sexy) fixes over real fixes.
If the world truly wanted to address Ebola and its root causes, the focus of the Ebola response should have been on things like training more health professionals, building up health systems and disease-surveillance networks in the country, and working with countries to prioritize health in their national budgets — all efforts that could take decades and wouldn't immediately produce results for bragging rights.”
Hopefully at least the infrastructure can be used? Maybe they were built in areas that need a health clinic building type situation? Maybe…
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