The World Health Organisations emergency response capabilities are “lacking” and will put thousands of lives at risk if they are not reformed now, a high-level United Nations panel convened in the wake of the Ebola crisis said.
“This may be the last opportunity to ensure that the WHO is empowered, to build an effective emergency response capacity,” warned an advance unedited copy of the UN panel’s report made available online over the weekend in a link on the UN’s Daily Journal website.
The report said: “The high risk of major health crises is widely underestimated and the world’s preparedness and capacity to respond is woefully insufficient.
“If the WHO does not successfully reform, the next major pandemic will cause thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.”
Reuters/NAN.
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