Choose the option

Mexico ex-governor Fernando Moreno injured in attack

Gunmen in Mexico have attacked the former governor of the western state of
Colima.
Fernando Moreno Pena, who governed Colima from 1997 to 2003, was having
breakfast in a restaurant in the state capital when two gunmen opened fire.
Mr Moreno Pena was hit six times but doctors said his injuries were not lifethreatening.
The motive for the attack is not known. It comes five years after another exgovernor of Colima was shot dead.
Silverio Cavazos, who was governor from 2005 to 2009, was killed outside his
home in 2010.
Mr Cavazos's predecessor in office, Gustavo Vazquez Montes, died in a plane
crash when he was returning from meetings in Mexico City in 2005.
All three were from the same party, the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI).

Hunt for suspects

The president of the party, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, said those behind Mr Moreno
Pena's shooting should be punished "to the full extent of the law".
Police are searching for the suspects.
Mr Moreno Pena was hit in both arms, in his hand, his thorax and his neck.

Officials said that the fact that the man Mr Moreno Pena was having breakfast with
was not injured led them to believe the ex-governor was the target.
Police have been posted at the hospital where he is being treated.
Mayors and other local officials are often the target of powerful drug gangs in
Mexico, but attacks on officials at state level are less common.
Colima, a small state in the west of the country, has escaped much of the cartel
violence Mexican states on the border with the US have experienced, but violent
incidents have been on the rise there.

Ebola beds prevented 40,000 deaths

The global response to the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone helped avert 40,000
deaths but if aid had been offered sooner, thousands more lives there might
have been saved, say researchers.
Britain's donations of more than 100m in the summer of 2014 helped to set up
nearly 3,000 hospital beds.
This vital provision, researchers estimate, prevented 56,000 Ebola cases.
But a further 12,500 cases could have been averted if the beds been available
even a month earlier, they calculate.
The UK government insists that it did act swiftly and says the international
community as a whole could have done more.
It's not the first time the government's response to Ebola has come under scrutiny.

In February, the Public Accounts Committee said funds had not been
released quickly enough to deal with the crisis.
In the months following the Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization was
also heavily criticised for being slow to act.

Care and quarantine

The work from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, published in
the journal PNAS, details how much of an impact a delay in international aid may
have had.
Researchers used a mathematical model to estimate how many cases of Ebola
were averted thanks to foreign aid efforts that set up treatment centres where
patients with the infectious virus could be quarantined and cared for.

From September 2014 onwards, more than 2,700 treatment beds were introduced
in Ebola holding centres, community care centres and treatment units to support
the overwhelmed health system in Sierra Leone.
The researchers calculate that these beds prevented some 56,600 cases of Ebola.
Had they been installed a month earlier, tens of thousands more would have been
avoided.
With Ebola killing more than half of those it infects, thousands more lives would
also have been saved.