New York, Dhu-AlQa'dah 21, 1435, Sep 16, 2014, SPA -- The World Bank on Tuesday approved a $105 million grant to provide emergency supplies and support for healthcare workers fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. The viral disease has infected hundreds of local doctors and nurses and overworked the already weak health systems in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia. The World Bank aid will fund hazard pay for healthcare workers in the three countries’ treatment centers. Funding will go to death benefits for the workers’ families, and towards local medical care for workers exposed to the deadly virus. The grant also will fund training programs for international health workers going to the countries. “The world needs to do much, much more to respond to the Ebola crisis in these three countries,” World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said when presenting the grant to his executive board. “Containing the Ebola epidemic has been hampered by the already fragile health systems in the affected countries. In turn, this is putting recent health gains in the region at serious risk,” said Tim Evans, the World Bank senior director for health, nutrition, and population. The $105 grant is part of the bank’s $200 million it had promised in August to fight the outbreak. --SPA 00:06 LOCAL TIME 21:06 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w