The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the UN must learn lessons from the Ebola crisis and begin preparing now for the next outbreak of deadly disease.

The UN chief said, “We will launch a serious effort to explore what more we can do to stay ahead of the next outbreak of disease, a test that is sure to come."
Following criticism from non-governmental organizations that the UN, particularly the World Health Organization were too slow to swing into action against the Ebola outbreak; Ban traveled to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the epicenter of the year-long Ebola epidemic that has killed more than 6,900 people. He also traveled to Mali, which has had a recent outbreak and Ghana which is the headquarters of the UN Ebola Emergency Mission.
Source-Medindia