‘The World Bank estimates that the two year socioeconomic effect of the current Ebola epidemic could reach $32.6 billion. If only a fraction of this amount had been spent on health system preparedness … many of the more than 10,000 deaths reported might have been prevented [and] the benefits of a well prepared health system would extend to many other diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.’

CITATION: Ebola and ethics: autopsy of a failure

BMJ 2015; 350 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h2105 (Published 23 April 2015)

Cite this as: BMJ 2015;350:h2105

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2105

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