HC 469 - Science in Emergencies: UK Lessons from Ebola
- ISBN-10
- 0215090861
- ISBN-13
- 9780215090867
- Category
- Disaster medicine
- Pages
- 49
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-01-25
- Publisher
- The Stationery Office
- Authors
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Science and Technology, Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Science and Technology Committee
Description
Ebola is a rare and deadly disease. Since late 2013, West Africa has experienced the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. We pay tribute to all those who worked tirelessly to tackle this outbreak, some of whom gave evidence to this inquiry, and many of whom continue working to avert similar crises in the future. We also commend the Government on its leading contribution to the fight against Ebola, and the financial, and personnel, commitments that it made, from constructing and staffing Ebola treatment centres in Sierra Leone to deploying troops, helicopters, aircrew and an aviation support ship to provide much needed logistical support. Examples of UK successes in tackling Ebola, however, must not allow complacency to set in. Despite this impressive deployment of resources to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone, the UK response - like the international response - was undermined by systemic delay. The biggest lesson that must be learnt from this outbreak of Ebola is that even minor delays in responding cost lives. Yet delays were evident at every stage of our response, from escalating Public Health England's disease surveillance data to those with the capacity to act, to convening a Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies which failed to be established until October 2014, three months after 'Cobra', the Government's emergency response committee, first met. In the absence of established mechanisms, ad hoc approaches emerged to fill the gaps. Inevitably, these were not as effective, or as targeted, as they should have been.
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