Ebola represents one of the most urgent challenges that the international communities need to face with immediate and concrete actions. According to experts, adapting has become second nature for people that try to respond to this unprecedented situation. Due to a delayed influx of international aid, operating manuals are being updated by organisations in order to stem an outbreak. Data show that victims have reached the number of 5,000 this month across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In order to contain the consequences of this crisis, experts are trying to test and upgrade every instrument, from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks. This severe crisis has forced the WFP; that is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation, to reassess its choices and methods. In this way, engineers are building four Ebola treatment centres that will be opened this month across Guinea. The blueprints are designed by MSF, the medical organisation leading treatment efforts, which has shared the models with other organisations. Data indicate that 150 trees were cut down in Sierra Leone’s Kailahun district to make a 50-bed Ebola treatment centre, at the time MSF’s biggest ever. However, these efforts have been dwarfed by the expanding crisis. In relation to this, the organisation now manages a 250-bed unit in Liberia. Additionally, almost a dozen more centres are due to open in Guinea before the year ends. Experts outline that the scale of the epidemic has forced rapid innovation and concrete changes. For instance, a team is developing field tents that will prevent overheating in the exhausting tropical heat, and gumboots that dry fast as they are also regularly sprayed down with chlorine. In addition to this, experts will change incinerators, used to burn any potentially infectious material at treatment centres, with new models: experts outline that each time a health worker goes into the isolation tents and comes out; their protective suit has to be burnt. Furthermore, aid workers stress that organizations and governments have the important role to teach local staff how to overcome this crisis with the best instruments. The gLAWcal Team EPSEI project Wednesday, 19 November 2014 (Source: The Guardian)