Multinational Perspective on Health Care Delivery: Private versus Government
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چکیده
Health care issues in any part of the world can suddenly become a global issue. This was exemplified by the outbreak few years ago of Ebola virus disease in parts of West Africa, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia [1,2] especially that later spread to other parts of West Africa including Senegal and Nigeria (these two countries were later declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization (WHO) while the outbreak was still on in Liberia especially). Also the spread of infected subjects extended to Europe through air travel (Spain, Germany) (3) and to the United States of America (USA) [4-6], the USA case being caused by an infected Liberian traveller from West Africa developing and also infecting USA medical personnel.
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