Health in Western Europe

  • EU health commissioner Tonio Borg

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/10/17 The EU needs to both double its efforts to fight the deadly virus Ebola in West Africa, inclunding introduce entry screening for airline passengers to enable identification of infected passengers, Health Commissioner Tonio Borg says. Together with Italian Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin, today (16 October), Borg is hosting a high-level conference in Brussels to discuss Ebola. The outbreak of the virus involves four nations - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria, and is expected to last a lot of months. But Europe has by presently witnessed its initial deadly cases.

  • The European Union (EU) will organize a massive airlift of materials to help nations affected by the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/10/11 The European Union (EU) will organize a massive airlift of materials to help nations affected by the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa, according to a statement issued here on Wednesday. In the statement, the EU said it had chartered three 747 cargo planes to transport medical personnel, health facilities, inclunding protection materials and masks, inclunding medicines. It said the planes will take off from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Friday to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the materials will be handed over to humanitarian organizations operating in the field.

  • EU seriously worried over spread of Ebola in West Africa

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2014/08/18 The European Union (EU) says it is “strongly concerned” about the spread of the deadly Ebola disease in “several West African nations part which are Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria', and offered condolences from EU member States to populations affected by the disease, official sources said here. In a statement issued Friday in Brussels next a conference of the council of European foreign affairs ministers, the EU said it had taken note of the world efforts to fight the Ebola disease.
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