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NiNety-NiNe baLLooNs: sam Morgan, 5, and Darci Gormley, mley, 4, helped launch 100minds, a campaign uniting students from all over ireland in the common goal of raising €150,000 for barnardos Children’s Charity. students can register on www.100minds.org until Friday, october 17
Plea for aid over ‘evil ebola virus’
The presidenTs of three ebola-stricken West African nations have sought an immediate outpouring of money, doctors and hospital beds as representatives of nations gathered at a World Bank meeting promised to send more aid. ‘Our people are dying,’ said president ernest Bai Koroma, speaking by video link from sierra Leone to an ebola summit at the annual meeting of the international Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington. he described the devastating effects of ‘this
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evil virus’ – children made orphans, doctors and nurses killed, and an overwhelmed medical system that cannot keep up with the need. The world’s response has not kept pace with the spread of ebola, Mr Koroma said, and ‘a tragedy unforeseen in modern times’ is threatening everyone. United nations secretary-general Ban KiMoon called for a 20-fold surge in international
aid to fight ebola. ‘For those who have yet to pledge, i say please do so soon. This is an unforgiving disease.’ At the meeting, president Alpha Conde of Guinea made an urgent plea for money, supplies and medicine. ‘Our countries are in a very fragile situation,’ Mr Conde said. World Bank president Jim Yong Kim endorsed pledges from the Us and Un to guarantee medical evacuations for healthcare workers responding to the crisis, an effort to ensure that enough
doctors and nurses are willing to risk their lives to help stop the disease. he said: ‘Trying to block your borders or isolate those countries in some way is not going to work.’ A World Bank report this week estimated that the economic toll of the largest ebola outbreak in history could reach €25billion if the disease continues to spread in West Africa.
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