Emergency Team Supporting Health Workers on Ebola Front Lines

AmeriCares Emergency Team on the front line of West Africa’s Ebola outbreak continue to expand the scope and scale of their efforts to protect health workers who are at greatest risk in the relentless spread of the deadly virus. This international public health emergency, as proclaimed by the World Health Organization, has infected more than 570 health workers and killed 324, including doctors and nurses. The overall death toll from Ebola has reached more than 5,400 with the greatest number of fatalities occurring in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
From the beginning of the crisis we recognized that the region’s under-resourced and under-staffed health care systems would not only be challenged by Ebola, but that other patients – still needing care for malaria, typhoid, complicated childbirth and other illnesses would risk having those conditions unattended. AmeriCares is committed to the fight against Ebola, and also supporting local health care workers in Africa so they can help other patients in desperate need of medicines and medical care.