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Thread #154975   Message #3667583
Posted By: Jack Campin
09-Oct-14 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
Subject: RE: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
A 2008 report by the African Religious Heath Assets Programme concluded that faith-based facilities were "often severely understaffed and many health workers were under-qualified." Drug shortages and the inability to transport patients who needed more intensive care also hampered the system.

That's an unreasonable complaint, unless local standards for secular-provided care are significantly better. In much of rural West Africa I very much doubt there is a better alternative on offer. If they're willing to do what they can with poor resources in a desperate situation, they deserve credit, not blame, for it.