Ebola Epidemic Highlights Need For More HCWs In West African Nations

Humanosphere: More support needed for local health workers responding to Ebola, advocates say
Humanosphere reporter Tom Murphy interviews several health care worker advocates and writes, “Many problems coalesced to make a usually controllable [Ebola] outbreak a crisis. One of those pieces is the lack of health care workers who can respond to emerging health problems in all of the countries…” (1/6).

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