The UN announced Thursday that it will dispatch an emergency mission to West Africa to help the countries most affected by the worsening Ebola epidemic deal with the crisis. Canada, meanwhile, announced it will provide another $30 million to the global effort to fight Ebola.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that workers with the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response are preparing to depart for West Africa on the weekend.
Guinea, Sierra Leona and Liberia have been the countries most affected by the virus, and their health systems are "buckling under the strain," Ban said.
He said global efforst to fight the disease have so far fallen short and there is an "overwhelming momentum" for the UN to play a leading role in co-ordinating the emergency response to the Ebola crisis.
"We will meet this challenge," Ban told the special UN session devoted to the Ebola crisis. "UN staff are prepared to help."
West Africa continues its fight against Ebola - this pregnant woman being lifted into an ambulance in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Sept. 19, is suspected of having the virus that has killed nearly 3,000 people. On Thursday at the UN, Canada said it is contributing another $30 million to support the battle against the outbreak. (Reuters/Unicef)
Earlier in the day, International Development Minister Christian Paradis criticized the aid delivery to Guinea, Sierra Leona and Liberia so far, and said there must be better co-ordination.
"Canada continues to be deeply concerned by the inadequate co-ordination efforts [to date] and calls for improved co-ordination at the global level," he said.
"The specific role of the UN and other lead agencies such as military and NGOs needs to be made clear. We salute the new initiative of the UN mission for Ebola emergency response."
Asked where the problem lies, Paradis said he didn't want to single out anybody.
"I think that the agreement here is that we need to be better co-ordinated... We want to do more in a more coherent way," he said.
The new funding is intended for treatment, prevention through social mobilization and health education, and broad humanitarian support including food and health services, Paradis said.
Canada announced in August that it would provided $1.3 million to fight the current outbreak in West Africa, which has now killed almost 3,000 people.
Last week, Health Minister Rona Ambrose pledged $2.5 million worth of the specialized medical gear used to protect health-care workers.
But the 800-1,000 experimental vaccines promised in August still haven't been shipped to West Africa, Dr. Gregory Taylor, the country's new chief public health officer, said Wednesday.
The Ebola vaccine was developed at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.
But there are still questions about how and where to send it, Taylor said in an interview with CBC News, including how to keep it refrigerated for the entire trip to West Africa.
"The 800 to 1,000 doses that we offered to WHO is still in Winnipeg," Taylor said. "We're getting very close to shipping some of that."
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