Ebola epidemic is 'wake-up call' for investment in universal healthcare

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Improving health systems in three Ebola-hit African countries would have cost a third of relief effort there, says new Save the Children report

Up to 30 countries are vulnerable to an Ebola-style epidemic, unless the world sits up and helps get urgent investment into universal healthcare, a report (pdf) has found.

Improving the health systems in the three Ebola-hit African nations would have helped to prevent the epidemic and cost a third of the relief effort, says Save the Children in a new investigation of the epidemic that has claimed more than 9,500 lives.

It found that £2.8bn had been spent on aid, compared with the £1bn it would have cost to improve basic healthcare in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

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Ebola? Wasn't that some African warlord?