The outsourcing of 'everything' is all the more apparent. Charles Onyango-Obbo writing in the Mail & Guardian
More hereWhat is striking about this latest episode of Ebola is how little the continent has done, and how it exposed the shambolic state of health care in Africa. There was only major African Union meeting on the Ebola crisis, and besides offering a few doctors, it hardly came up with a penny to help fight the virus.
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Most of the money and doctors on the ground are coming from outside the continent – from the US, Europe, and in particularly large numbers, China and Cuba.
The more the world and continent open up, and travel increases, it is important to prepare for the next virus. It cannot be that a disease that breaks out in Africa, then becomes mostly the concern of the rest of the world not the continent itself.
Those who are criticising America and Europe for “not doing enough” to fight Ebola, should ask African leaders the same question; “what are African governments doing for themselves?”
