Health News of Friday, 3 November 2017Source: bbc.comRed Cross apologises for losing $5m of Ebola funds to fraudEbola claimed at least 10,000 lives across West AfricaThe Red Cross has confirmed that more than $5m (£3.8m) of aid money was lost to fraud and corruption during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. As Ebola spread across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the Red Cross Federation in Geneva was dispersing cash donations to the national Red Cross societies in each of those countries - altogether a sum of about $100m. The Red Cross told the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva that it is deeply sorry for the losses. The organisation adds that it has introduced stricter financial rules, and promised to hold any Red Cross staff involved to account. The Red Cross is the world's best-known humanitarian organisation, and this revelation will be damaging, she adds.

Source: GhanaWeb November 03, 2017 14:15 UTC