Weaknesses in west African healthcare systems exposed by the Ebola outbreak will require hundreds of millions of dollars to rectify if they are to withstand future shocks, health chiefs said on Thursday. He said he hoped that the Ebola epidemic in his country could be over by the end of April. Sierra Leone's health minister Abu Bakarr Fofanah declined to give a figure but said he was drawing up a "five, six, seven, eight-year plan" to rebuild and strengthen health services for after Ebola was defeated. The World Health Organization has warned that deaths from the outbreak will surpass those directly killed because of its crippling effect on already patchy health services.
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