WHO’s Slow Ebola Response Prompts Agency, Critics To Call For Reform

NPR: Critics Says Ebola Crisis Was WHO’s Big Failure. Will Reform Follow?
“…Although [WHO Director Margaret Chan] has said no single agency could have solved the Ebola epidemic, critics, including the medical charity Doctors Without Borders, have said WHO should have done more. Now Chan is pushing for the most sweeping reforms of WHO since its founding in 1948…” (Beaubien, 2/6).

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