MONROVIA, March 4 (LINA) - A new report from Save the Children is calling on world leaders at the Ebola summit in Brussels to learn from the lessons of the outbreak in West Africa to avoid another health crisis.
The report disclosed that around 30 poor countries are severely lacking capacity in their healthcare systems and are exposed to epidemics such as Ebola as has been in the case of the three Ebola hard-hit West African countries - Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The NGO documents the quality of public healthcare systems, using indicators such as the number of health workers and neonatal mortality rates in the world's 72 poorest countries.
Save the Children asserts that there are at least 28 countries with worse healthcare systems than Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three countries most-affected by the recent Ebola outbreak which led to nearly 9,400 deaths.
These countries would be highly vulnerable to an epidemic if faced with an outbreak of a disease like Ebola, the charity said in the report releasedonday.
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