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| Alpha Kanu, Sierra Leone's Minister of Information and Communication |
Sierra Leone's Minister of
Information, Alpha Kanu, on Thursday attempted to counter established facts about
the country`s weak health system which played a major role in the government’s failure
to properly handled the 2014/15 Ebola epidemic.
Kanu told State Broadcaster SLBC’s
breakfast show ‘The Podium’ that the health system wasn’t weak. He said it just
wasn’t prepared to handle the Ebola virus disease.
This is in line with a now familiar
excuse by the government which has always argued that Ebola was a 'new' disease,
whatever that means, and that it had taken everyone by surprise. In effect when
they say this, such officials expect that the poor and helpless masses should
understand and accept the unacceptable impact of the epidemic on the people.
