Report Says WHO Not Fit To Handle Situations Like Ebola Outbreak.

n independent panel said in a “blistering report” published Tuesday that the World Health Organization is ill-equipped to respond to a public health crisis. In the report, the panel said that the group “does not currently possess the capacity or organizational culture to deliver a full emergency public health response,” and that while the WHO has admitted that reforms are needed, “it will need to be held accountable to ensure that this transformation is achieved.” The report, published in the wake of the Ebola epidemic which began last year, blamed the WHO “for being sluggish, financially unprepared and overly reliant on ‘good diplomacy,’” and said the agency should have acted quicker than it did. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/08/world/africa/who-is-not-equipped-to-handle-a-crisis-like-ebola-report-says.html?ref=world&_r=0