After failing to properly take care of the largest Ebola outbreak the world has ever seen so far, the World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed several reforms to replace the structure that just wasn't taking care of things.

Experts say the terrible performance that the WHO put up in the wake of the Ebola outbreak cost thousands of lives.

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That's why several dozen members of WHO came forward on Sunday to approve a resolution aimed at improving the United Nations health agencies' ability to respond to emergencies such as Ebola.

Director of the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, said that the WHO we have is not the WHO we need right now. He stressed that the reason this was is because some decisions were made for political motives, and not in the name of science.

The WHO is not shying away from the accusation though. Chief of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, acknowledged that the organization was too slow to correctly handle the Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 8,600 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Critics of WHO say that the reforms being adopted are long overdue. They also go on to say that Ebola revealed the inherent weaknesses with the WHO. The outcome of WHO not being able to handle the situation was catastrophic.

Thus, nearly 60 countries called on the agency to take "immediately necessary steps" to enact measures, including the creation of an emergency fund service for these situations. Britain would donate $10 million to the fund.

The resolution also called for a reserve of health workers readily available to battle any emergency situation.

These changes clashed with the decisions made by WHO a couple of years ago. Back then, they reduced their outbreak department and insisted they were there to issue expert guidance, and not to be first responders.

Everything is still up in the air, and the reforms have yet to be concretized and formalized. However, knowing that a change is needed in the system is the first step to take. 

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