Ban arrived in the Guinean capital, Conakry, on Saturday and was greeted at the airport by Guinea’s Foreign Minister Francois Louceny Fall and Health Minister Remy Lamah.
Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan, the UN coordinator for the fight against Ebola, David Nabarro, and Anthony Banbury, the head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), accompanied Ban in the trip.
The UN chief is due to hold a news conference later Saturday after meeting with Guinean President Alpha Condé.
On Friday, Ban flew to Liberia from the UN Ebola mission headquarters in Ghana. He also visited an Ebola treatment center outside Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, during his tour.
The developments come as nongovernmental organizations have censured UN agencies such as the WHO for the delay in their responsive actions regarding Ebola.
Ban has recently pledged to help the Ebola-ravaged countries restore health services disrupted by the Ebola outbreak. He also said last month that with international mobilization, the epidemic is highly likely to come under control in 2015.
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