Ebola crisis: WHO response criticised in damning report

West Africa paid a heavy price due to the organisation's delay in sounding the alarm, say health experts

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The World Health Organization has come under fire from global health experts for failing to respond soon enough to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.

"The most egregious failure [was the organisation's] delay in sounding the alarm," said Professor Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute.

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