With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems - 2 views
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Isobel Stephen on 22 Sep 14This article shows opportunity cost because the health care systems of Liberia and Sierra Leone must dedicate the entirety of their resources - space in hospitals, as well as equipment (capital) and the labor of the doctors -so that the system is unable to take care of people who are sick with diseases other than ebola. They must allocate all their resources to ebola, and none are left over for victims of other diseases.