Medecins Sans Frontieres is accusing governments and agencies of reacting too slowly to the initial Ebola outbreak in west Africa.
The charity says it deployed 13 hundred international staff and 4 thousand local personnel in the region and they cared for nearly 5 thousand patients since the virus was recorded in Guinea a year ago.
Around 10 thousand people have died from Ebola in the past 12 months.
Director of MSF Ireland, Jane-Anne McKenna, says the outbreak was badly handled at the outset:
