The World Bank donates additional $100 million towards Ebola health workers.

The World Bank have given an additional $100 million to support the deployment of more health workers to Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa.

This increases the assistance from the World Bank to more than $500 million.

The money was given in response to appeals from West African and global development leaders for a massive coordinated reinforcement of international health teams to the three countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in order to contain the epidemic.

According to the United Nations estimates, the three countries need another 5,000 international medical, training and support personnel in the coming months. This includes the need for 700 to 1,000 workers to treat patients in Ebola treatment centers.

“The world’s response to the Ebola crisis has increased significantly in recent weeks, but we still have a huge gap in getting enough trained health workers to the areas with the highest infection rates,” said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. “We must urgently find ways to break any barriers to the deployment of more health workers.”