MSF Warns Ebola Response Funds Are Unaccounted For as Frontline Workers Go Unpaid

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that money allocated to fight an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was not reaching frontline teams. It said some workers were unpaid or inadequately trained, supplies were running short, and some ambulances had no fuel. The report cited an Africa CDC estimate that $700 million of $962 million disbursed to organisations involved in the response was unaccounted for. The agency’s director-general cautioned that it was too early to call the funds embezzled, describing the issue as a serious transparency and financial-reporting failure. MSF also raised concerns about weak disease surveillance and shortages at health facilities. The report said the outbreak had spread beyond the DRC, with cases reported in Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria.

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