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EU Decides to Create Medical Service to Counter Health Emergencies

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The European Union will create a medical service to tackle future crises in healthcare, the European Commission said in a communique on Thursday.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and halt in all known chains of transmission in West Africa. The communique calls for the lessons learned from the Ebola experience to be taken into consideration going forward.

File Photo: Russian doctor Valentine Safronov stands inside a mobile medical lab donated by the Russian government to assist with the Ebola out-brake in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. - Sputnik International
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"The international system needs to fix the failures which became all too apparent in the inadequacy of the response to the disease in the early months of 2014. In this regard, the European Union is setting up a European Medical Corps through which medical teams and equipment from our Member States can be deployed swiftly to deal with future health emergencies," the communique reads.

Earlier in the day, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides said that medical corps should be created to be deployed when the major health crisis strike.

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