Almost 30 Countries Suffer from Weaker Health Systems Than Ebola-Hit...

Almost 30 Countries Suffer from Weaker Health Systems Than Ebola-Hit West Africa, Putting Millions at Risk - Save the Children FAIRFIELD, Conn., March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Health systems throughout the developing world need to be strengthened to prevent another Ebola-style outbreak, or worse, warns Save the Children in its new report "A Wake Up Call: Lessons from Ebola for the World's Health Systems." The report ranks the world's poorest countries on the state of their public health systems, finding that 28 have weaker defenses in place than Sierra Leone, where, alongside Liberia and Guinea, the current Ebola crisis has already claimed more than 9,500 lives.



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