Armand Sprecher

So we're trying to figure out how we can scale up our human resources to respond appropriately, but then make use of our experienced resources in a way that will allow us to continue this fight.

for the duration of the outbreak.

We're getting everybody into the epidemic zone.

MSF Geneva has been running five projects in Eturi for many years.

So we already have a significant presence there and know the region and how difficult it is.

But we're bringing in additional people with the skills and equipment to deal with

uh ebola outbreaks the trick is of course that we have to figure out where to set up where the chains of transmission where are we most able to bring our medical impact to bear but also how to scale back the regular projects there the people who are taking care of problems that didn't have anything to do with ebola have to figure out how to do this safely and keep their patients safe from the

current epidemic.

So it's a double task force right now.

Well, so that's two questions.

So by and large, the Congo is a country that is under-resourced when it comes to health care.

They just don't have the money to set up the health systems that you would want in a place like this.

But they're also experienced.

This is their 17th outbreak

of this kind of disease.

And so the people there are experienced.

They just need the resources to bring to bear.

And that's part of what we're doing, working with them.

So the competence, but they'd also, they need the same tools, right?

So they don't have the tests, they don't have the treatments and neither do we.