WHO in the dock over Ebola crisis

Dakar

IN the first days of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, as aid workers and health authorities battled to contain the deadly virus, Mariano Lugli asked himself a simple question: where was the World Health Organization?

Mr Lugli, an Italian nurse, was among the first responders from medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to reach the remote forests of Guinea in March where the haemorrhagic fever - one of the most lethal diseases known to man - was detected.

When the epidemic spread…