India ranks below Liberia among nations most vulnerable to Ebola-like outbreaks

Cost of dealing with the present Ebola outbreak in three affected countries nearly three times the annual cost of investing in building their health services

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03 Mar 2015, 5:58 pm

Though the present outbreak of Ebola is restricted to West Africa, many other countries across the world are quite “vulnerable” to it.

A latest report, released by international non-profit Save the Children, has ranked the world’s poorest countries on the state of their public health systems. It has stated that 28 countries have weaker defences in place than Sierra Leone where, alongside Liberia and Guinea, the current Ebola crisis has already claimed more than 9,500 lives.

28 countries ranked below Liberia in health index