{The US envoy to the United Nations criticised the level of international support for nations hit by Ebola as she began a tour on Sunday of West African nations struggling with the disease.}
Samantha Power said before arriving in Guinea that too many leaders were praising the efforts of countries like the United States and Britain to accelerate aid to the worst-affected nations, but were doing little themselves.
“The international response to Ebola needs to be taken to a wholly different scale than it is right now,” Power told NBC News before boarding her plane.
She said many countries “are signing on to resolutions and praising the good work that the United States and the United Kingdom and others are doing, but they themselves haven’t taken the responsibility yet to send docs, to send beds, to send the reasonable amount of money”.
After Guinea, Power will travel to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Those three nations account for the vast majority of the 4,922 deaths from the virus.
She will also visit Ghana, where the UN mission fighting Ebola is based, before meeting EU officials in Belgium.
More than 10,000 people have contracted the Ebola virus, according to the latest World Health Organisation figures.
Another West African country, Mali, was scrambling to prevent a wider outbreak after a two-year-old girl died from her infection following a 1,000-kilometre bus ride from Guinea. She was Mali’s first recorded case of the disease.
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