Three Hot Issues Facing the World
16 August 2014. By Abi Giwa
United Nations' Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon
Ebola and the fear of its spread is the number one top issue facing the world. It is followed by Ukraine and Iraq in the order of grievousness of their crisis. Syria is still there, but the problems in Iraq and Ukraine have taken away the attention.
Ebola as a health issue is a moral equivalent of war. Health workers lives are exposed to danger; humanity under threat from a disease that has been under cover of a sort before its re-emergence in West Africa and it has has killed more than 1000.
Every country in West Africa is on the verge of closing borders to forestall movement of people and circulation of the disease.
Ukraine's crisis is seen by observers as capable of leading to a world war or die a natural death depending on the decision of combatants in a matter that has re-opened flexing of muscles between the West and Russia.
Just as Ukraine is waiting like a combustible that has exploded but still manageable, Iraq is festering from ISIS's search for a base after failure of an undertaking in Syria. America has been trying to help push back the ISIS's ambition in Iraq, and the United Nations has reportedly taken steps to embargo the militants' access to resources. The Some people say ISIS is worse than Al-Queda.
Sierra Leone's President has called on stakeholders in health delivery concerning Ebola outbreak to do more to help people in West Africa. He said the loss of over 300 people in Serra Leone alone is already creating orphans that need attention.
On Friday, one bad news emanated from Nigeria that the nurse people in the country had asked President Barack to help save her life with Zmapp had died from the infection. From the way people who have the disease are quarantined and the isolated area of treatment show the danger to humanity that Ebola presents.
The world has always been confronted by health challenges, but Ebola seems a different one entirely. It raises a question of what the WHO had been doing for having not alerted the world when the disease first broke and affected people in Sudan, DR Congo, Ugandan and Gabon between 1976 and 2013.
To many people around the world, the case of Ebola in West Africa is the first time they are hearing of the disease; people being quarantined in isolation treatment center and health workers' lives threatened.
People are asking whether the WHO has not been in existence between 1976 and 1983. They say if it has been in existence, why has it not alert the world of the existence of Ebola before the latest West African experience?
Ebola as a health issue is a moral equivalent of war. Health workers lives are exposed to danger; humanity under threat from a disease that has been under cover of a sort before its re-emergence in West Africa and it has has killed more than 1000.
Every country in West Africa is on the verge of closing borders to forestall movement of people and circulation of the disease.
Ukraine's crisis is seen by observers as capable of leading to a world war or die a natural death depending on the decision of combatants in a matter that has re-opened flexing of muscles between the West and Russia.
Just as Ukraine is waiting like a combustible that has exploded but still manageable, Iraq is festering from ISIS's search for a base after failure of an undertaking in Syria. America has been trying to help push back the ISIS's ambition in Iraq, and the United Nations has reportedly taken steps to embargo the militants' access to resources. The Some people say ISIS is worse than Al-Queda.
Sierra Leone's President has called on stakeholders in health delivery concerning Ebola outbreak to do more to help people in West Africa. He said the loss of over 300 people in Serra Leone alone is already creating orphans that need attention.
On Friday, one bad news emanated from Nigeria that the nurse people in the country had asked President Barack to help save her life with Zmapp had died from the infection. From the way people who have the disease are quarantined and the isolated area of treatment show the danger to humanity that Ebola presents.
The world has always been confronted by health challenges, but Ebola seems a different one entirely. It raises a question of what the WHO had been doing for having not alerted the world when the disease first broke and affected people in Sudan, DR Congo, Ugandan and Gabon between 1976 and 2013.
To many people around the world, the case of Ebola in West Africa is the first time they are hearing of the disease; people being quarantined in isolation treatment center and health workers' lives threatened.
People are asking whether the WHO has not been in existence between 1976 and 1983. They say if it has been in existence, why has it not alert the world of the existence of Ebola before the latest West African experience?
