World Bank to Increase Ebola Fund 400 Million

9/26/2014 6:21:28 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Washington September 26 (QNA) -The World Bank Group on Thursday announced that it will nearly double its financing to US $400 million to help the worst-affected countries address the emergency and build stronger health systems for the years ahead.

This represents $170 million in new funding. With Thursday's announcement the Bank will put $230 million toward the emergency response and $170 million for medium- and long-term projects the world bank press release said.

The Bank said the fresh aid will go toward expanding the health-care workforce and buying needed supplies for care and treatment in the worst-affected countries.

The new aid took to $400 million the amount the Bank has put toward the fight against the spread of Ebola which has swept quickly through Liberia Guinea and Sierra Leone.

"The global community is now responding with the urgency and the scale needed to begin to turn back this unprecedented Ebola crisis" said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim who was speaking today at a special session on the Ebola crisis at the United Nations. "The real challenge now is to bring care and treatment to the most remote areas as well as the cities and then to build a stronger health care system.

This funding will help the countries start a massive scale up of training of community health workers and bring needed supplies and equipment. (QNA)

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