Ebola: 10,200 deaths in a year, MSF critical WHO

"It's really a shame that the WHO and the international community are awakened when Western were infected."

A year has passed since the Ebola virus has emerged in Guinea and Sierra Leone and Liberia. And in a year, it has killed more than 10,200 people and about 24,000 have been infected.

Today, the epidemic is far from over. Sierra Leone has ordered the confinement of all its people from 27 to 29 March.

Charles Mambu, leading a group of associations advocating for access to health for all in Sierra Leone, "Health for All Coalition"

"When Ebola emerged in Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, governments and citizens were not prepared for this, we do not have the resources, staff, all the doctors we had, only one had was formed to deal with a viral illness. "

The Guinea with 4,283 dead and Sierra Leone, with 3,702 deaths are the most affected by the epidemic.

The United Nations has mobilized $ 600 million fund to help the affected countries. The United Nations Mission for the emergency action against Ebola (MINUAUCE) was created.

But the response was delayed and dispersed.

The World Health Organization has singled out in a report by the NGO Doctors without borders.

Christopher Stokes, General Director of MSF:

"It was clearly an international epidemic. And it's really a shame that the WHO and the international community are awakened when Western were infected. "

It was only on August 8 that WHO declared a "global public health emergency" and called for a "coordinated international response". "At that time, more than a thousand people were already dead" according to MSF accuses the WHO of ignoring his calls for help.

The explosion in the number of cases and geographical spread last summer overflowed affected countries and NGOs.