Lol Onthebeach....utter lies from you!
How the hell would you know who I have talked to about this subject?
Certainly I would have vastly more medical contacts than you.
As a good little volunteer yourself, why not go on over to Africa to help?

If the hospitals are given the money to pay for the resouces needed for an Ebola outbreak that would be fine, but this Government wants to continue putting it's holy head into the ground and pray it never happens.

All the 'training' in the world will never be as good as sending our own medical staff to the front line to work with current Ebola patients, so why aren' t they coughing up the money to do this?
The AMA are giving this stupid PM warnings, and have told him what he should do....

otb,

You are the master of misrepresentation and generalisation.

"Your political partisanship would see Australian medical and other employees directed to go in serious harm's way without the training, supplies and infrastructure to support them, and as the government has said many times, without any prospect of any suspected of contracting the virus being admitted to a proper hospital facility for observation and treatment."

You're as partisan as they come on this forum, so we'll ignore that.

"Directed"

Baloney!

No-one is being directed. Those with expertise in this area are volunteering their services to try and stem the spread of this virus.

And you wouldn't want a virus of the nature of Ebola to get away from you, even in a Western facility. There are only so many quarantine or bio-containment beds...but none of that seems to occur for apologists of this govt's disinterest in tackling Ebola at the source.

The govt of Australia, a rich country, had plenty of time to negotiate with other countries in the northern hemisphere to arrange healthcare in case of infection. They, no doubt, hopped straight to it, and arranged evacuation and care for any troops injured in their Iraqi foray.

They employed "we can't get 'em back" as an excuse - and are only now applying themselves after domestic and international condemnation of their apathetic approach to a serious biological threat.

Suseonline,

As I recall it was you in another thread on the same subject who discounted Ebola at the time and spruiked miracle treatments and even vaccination on the immediate horizon.

Poirot,

Like Suseonline you are rather free with other people's money and dismissive of risks faced by volunteers and by medical and other staff in Australia.

To repeat, I did ask earlier what risk management the government should have in place before sending Australian medical teams. Of course you and others ignore that and for the very obvious reason that you don't care and it doesn't suit your political attacks.

onthebeach wrote:

"Suseonline,

As I recall it was you in another thread on the same subject who discounted Ebola at the time and spruiked miracle treatments and even vaccination on the immediate horizon."

That is unlikely to be how most readers interpreted it. http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6543&page=0

Quote (Suseonline): "Just like all recent pandemic infections, I would suggest scientists would come up with a mass immunization program to contain the infection in one area before it spread too far.

They already have cured some doctors with Ebola, so it is only a matter of time before mass-produced effective medicines are available."

I said that opinion was upbeat at the time and that remains my opinion.

My question remains unanswered: "What risk management should the government have in place before sending Australian medical teams?".

poirot: The govt of Australia, a rich country,
SoL: so why aren't they coughing up the money to do this?

Australia used to be a rich country. Now the Australia can't support its own Schools & Hospitals or maintain its Infrastructure because we keep wasting the jizya Tax (Foreign Aid, $9 Billion +) on Countries that can completely renew their Armed Forces. (18 new Submarines, +++, etc)

Why does Australia have to be involved on the ground? We can do much better in the Laboratory here. Something which Australia is very good at.