Spanish health workers load Spanish Ebola patient, Catholic priest Manuel Garcia Viejo, into a Spanish Air Force transport plane at Lungi airport in Freetown, as they prepare for his repatriation to Spain for treatment September 21, 2014.REUTERS/Ministry of Defence/Handout via Reuters
MILAN (Reuters) - European countries are assessing what resources they have to help fight Ebola and are planning a coordinated response to the worst outbreak of the virus in history, Italy's health minister Beatrice Lorenzin said on the sidelines of a meeting on Monday.
The European Union has pledged 140 million euros (£110.1 million) to reinforce the fight against Ebola in West Africa, where the haemorrhagic fever has killed at least 2,793 people in five countries, according to the World Health Organisation.
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