{"id":3911,"date":"2015-07-09T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=3911"},"modified":"2015-07-09T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:30:51","slug":"who-unfit-for-health-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/who-unfit-for-health-emergencies\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO &#8216;unfit for health emergencies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=lead media-landscape full-width no-caption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ebola crisis proves the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks the capacity and culture to deal with global health emergencies, says a damning independent report, commissioned by the WHO itself.<\/p>\n<p>The review panel says WHO was too slow to act to get on top of the deadly virus which has now killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>And it calls for an urgent overhaul of the organisation. <\/p>\n<p>WHO says it has plans for reform. <\/p>\n<p>It has already admitted that it waited too long to declare Ebola a public health emergency of international concern. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-33422635\" rel=\"nofollow\">article source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebola crisis proves the World Health Organization (WHO) lacks the capacity and culture to deal with global health emergencies, says a damning independent report, commissioned by the WHO itself. The review panel says WHO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-health-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}