In the wake of the the Ebola Crisis Rocking the West African Region, Doctors without Boarders had testified to the United Nation trice saying that they are overwhelmed by the current Ebola Crisis and that they cannot handle it.
This is coming as a result of no resolute commitment from African Union as a Body or the world powers towards confronting the Ebola virus, Though so much has been donated, Clinics built and staff trained for this course, it is still obvious that all the efforts are yet to be coordinated and the fore front Organization who has been tirelessly working in theses Regions has now voiced out that they cannot do it alone.
However, President Barrack Obama the United States President has proposed that Three Thousand (3,000) military personnel will be sent to west Africa,with 500 health workers to be trained per day and about 400,000 treatment kits to be distributes across the affected regions.
All these are the United States effort towards expanding effort on Ebola virus Outbreak in West Africa.
On meeting the Doctor who recovered from treatment after he was infected by Ebola Virus, the doctor explained his first hand Experience he said " On 23rd of July, I was isolated and never knew if i could see my Family again" he explained how he felt the impulse of internal bleeding in his body and how dejected he felt when every body around him wore protective equipments from head to toe.
It is important to note that 2,400 people are already dead from Ebola outbreak and 22% of Ebola victims in Sierra Leon are Children.
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