Liberia: Ellen Begs Obama

15 September 2014

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has asked that the US government to set up and operates at least one Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Monrovia, conceding that the wave of outbreak across the country has overwhelmed containment and treatment measures attempted thus far by the Government of Liberia.

In an 11-paragraph letter to President Barrack Obama over the weekend, President Sirleaf indicated that at the current rate of infections in Liberia, only governments like the United States and other Western countries have the resources and assets to deploy at the pace required to arrest the spread.

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