{"id":60363,"date":"2014-10-28T20:26:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=60363"},"modified":"2014-10-28T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:28:06","slug":"world-bank-president-expected-in-ghana-over-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=60363","title":{"rendered":"World Bank President expected in Ghana over Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2202\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2201\">World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will arrive in Ghana on Thursday, October 30, 2014, for meetings with Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur and other country officials. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2201\">Dr. Kim will also meet with\u00a0 officials of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER)\u00a0 to discuss the Ebola epidemic and its debilitating impact on the three most heavily affected countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone \u00a0 and on the West African sub-region as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2205\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2204\">Dr. Kim will reaffirm the World Bank Group&#8217;s commitment to fighting the Ebola epidemic and will share the latest news on how the World Bank Group will continue to work closely with partners to assist the affected countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2210\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2209\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;WQ8RzxBmbDO1qaRbSVaIyFQc9t0AD0EW&#8221;]\u00a0The Ebola epidemic continues to spread exponentially in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2209\">It has ravaged families, health workers and communities; disrupted normal life; and led to a breakdown of already weak country health systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2213\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2212\">If the virus continues to surge in the three worst-affected countries and spreads to neighboring countries, the two-year regional financial impact could reach $32.6 billion by the end of 2015, dealing a potentially catastrophic blow to already fragile states, according to a recent World Bank Group report, The Economic Impact of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic: Short and Medium Term Estimates for West Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The World Bank Group has mobilized a $400 million financing package to help the three countries hardest hit by the epidemic contain the spread of infections, help communities cope with the economic impact of the crisis, and to improve public health systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2227\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2228\">\u00a0A major obstacle to containing and stopping the epidemic is the lack of massive, rapid and coordinated deployment of health workers, especially foreign medical teams.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1414527473696_2228\">A massively scaled and coordinated international response with qualified, high-caliber foreign medical teams is needed to set up and maintain effective Ebola treatment centers and other health facilities to support affected countries, stabilize the situation, and help prevent the further spread of Ebola, while also reactivating the provision of essential health services for non-Ebola conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Credit: World Bank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will arrive in Ghana on Thursday, October 30, 2014, for meetings with Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur and other country officials. 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