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| World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim |
Today, the President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, re-echoed the charge made by the ECOWAS & Ghanaian President, John Mahama by admonishing the global community not to isolate the countries affected by the Ebola epidemic, but should instead isolate the disease through a swift and collective international effort.
Kim said only a concerted and urgent international effort can stop its spread and transition to a global pandemic.
In August to be précised, the ECOWAS Chairman and Ghana's president John Mahama made the same call asking for a change in strategy to fighting the Ebola scourge which has claimed over 1,400 lives in the West African sub-region at a time.He said the new strategy must revolve around ways of containing the disease and not necessarily to isolate countries that have recorded cases of Ebola.
Speaking at a conference in Accra in August to devise strategies to contain the disease, President Mahama said Ghana cannot look on while its neighbours perish.
"We must implement containment measures but we must not implement measures that isolate and ostracise the affected countries.
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