Lessons learnt from the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West-Africa

| January 2015 | 107 emphasizes on the necessity of an effective public health system and significance of community engagement in order to successfully contain any such outbreak in the future.[4,9,10] In fact, the international agencies have even realized the price we have to pay (in terms of disruption of social life, broken families, orphaned children, etc.), if we do not give adequate interest to the research sector.[10,13,14] Furthermore, noncompliance to the appropriate preventive measures (viz. use of personal protective equipments, maintaining hand hygiene, use of disinfectants, etc.), has also played a crucial role in the spread of the disease across national and international borders.[8,10,15] Finally, the Ebola disease outbreak prioritize for the development of an action plan in unaffected nations, and for the continuous support from international agencies/nations.[1,4,7,16]