Baku-APA. The European Union (EU) on Monday scaled up its aid to fight the Ebola epidemic by 29 million euros (36.2 million U.S. dollars) after EU officials returned from Africa, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
One part of the additional funding will be earmarked for transporting vital aid supplies and equipment to the affected countries, evacuation of infected international aid workers to hospitals in Europe and training and deploying health workers to the ground.
The other part will be used to assist neighbors of the affected countries and help them prepare for the risk of an Ebola outbreak through early detection and public awareness measures.
The new aid was announced by Christos Stylianides, EU Ebola Coordinator and Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, upon his return from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, where he gathered first-hand knowledge of the challenges and considered the next steps in the EU response.
According to the EU, the new funding takes the European Commission's assistance for the Ebola emergency up to 373 million euros. The European Union's total contribution is close to 1.1 billion euros.
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