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Saudi- UN head slams 'unnecessary' Ebola restrictions on health workers
(MENAFN- Arab News) VIENNA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned Monday against 'unnecessarily' strict restrictions on health workers returning from treating Ebola patients in an apparent reference to quarantines and visa bans by some Western nations.
'There are some unnecessarily extra restrictions and discriminations against health workers. These people are ... risking their own lives' Ban told a news conference in Vienna.
Without naming any country Ban said that these 'unnecessarily strong and strict restrictions' included 'quarantine for health workers ... not based on science and medical evidence.'
'That is my honest and urgent opinion to the international community' he said stressing however that people with Ebola symptoms 'should be immediately treated and supported.'
Experts say quarantining medical professionals who have shown no symptoms of the virus is counter-productive and could deter other workers from helping contain west Africa's Ebola crisis.
In a case which attracted international criticism New Jersey Governor Chris Christie kept a nurse in an isolation tent for three days after she flew back from Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile Canada and Australia controversially announced last week that they were suspending visa applications from Ebola-hit west African nations.
'There are some unnecessarily extra restrictions and discriminations against health workers. These people are ... risking their own lives' Ban told a news conference in Vienna.
Without naming any country Ban said that these 'unnecessarily strong and strict restrictions' included 'quarantine for health workers ... not based on science and medical evidence.'
'That is my honest and urgent opinion to the international community' he said stressing however that people with Ebola symptoms 'should be immediately treated and supported.'
Experts say quarantining medical professionals who have shown no symptoms of the virus is counter-productive and could deter other workers from helping contain west Africa's Ebola crisis.
In a case which attracted international criticism New Jersey Governor Chris Christie kept a nurse in an isolation tent for three days after she flew back from Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile Canada and Australia controversially announced last week that they were suspending visa applications from Ebola-hit west African nations.
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