The outgoing chief of the United Nations’ anti-Ebola
mission has voiced hope that global efforts would put an
end to the outbreak of the deadly virus in West Africa by
the end of 2015, but said that months of tough work
remain.

Anthony Banbury told reporters on Friday that 2015
could see the eradication of the epidemic that has struck
six West African nations, with Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Liberia bearing the brunt of the 20,000 infections and
nearly 8,000 deaths.

Faced with criticism the world was not doing enough,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon set up the UN
Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) mission in
September to coordinate global efforts against
the outbreak, first identified in Guinea’s remote
southeast in early 2014.

“We have not come anywhere close to ending the crisis.
We have done a lot in 90 days in a very successful
response but we have a long and difficult way to go,”
Anthony Banbury told reporters in Accra, where the
UN’s anti-Ebola mission is based.



“It is going to go on for not just weeks but some
months more. But I believe we will do it in 2015 and we
are going to do it by working very closely not just with
governments of the countries but the communities,” he
said.


Banbury will be replaced by veteran humanitarian
official Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania on Saturday.


A spike of cases in Sierra Leone meant UNMEER
missed its target of ensuring that by early December 70
percent of all Ebola patients were being treated in
isolation units and 70 percent of all those who died from
Ebola were buried properly.

Banbury said there were now enough functioning
treatment centres in the region.


The target of 100 percent safe burials by end of
January 2015 was on track now that there were some
254 safe burial teams operating in the affected
countries.


Six other countries, including Nigeria, Senegal, Mali,
the United States, Spain and Britain, have reported
cases imported from the worst affected countries.

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