Ebola outbreak: Australia will not send health workers to west Africa Sunday 28 September 2014Australia will not send health workers to west Africa’s Ebola outbreak zones because there’s no way to get them home safely if they catch the disease.
Médecins Sans Frontières and World Health Organisation have urged the government to increase Australia’s contribution.
But the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, insists Australia is pulling its weight and says the World Health Organisation has not asked for on-the-ground health workers.
She said the Australian Defence Force and health department advised it was not possible to safely evacuate infected health workers back to Australia.
“The Australian government is not about to put at risk Australian health workers in the absence of credible evacuation plans that could bring our people back to Australia,” she told reporters in Melbourne.
The government is negotiating with Britain and the US on evacuations.
This after obola just had his warm fuzzy 60 Minutes interview about the world calling on the US for help in every crisis. Just say NO!