Lessons to be learned from Ebola response: experts

Health experts say there are lessons to be learned from the response to the Ebola crisis.

As African nations face the biggest-ever Ebola epidemic, health experts say there are lessons to be learned from the crisis response.

The World Health Organisation says Ebola has killed more than six-thousand people and infected more than 17,000 others - mostly in the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Lord Nigel Crisp is an African health expert and an IndepAendent Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom.

He says the international response to Ebola has been slow.

Lord Crisp has told Zara Zaher, he believes swift action is critical to contain the deadly virus to prevent it from spreading.