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Liberia: Govt Adds New Ebola Centres As It Tries to Contain Outbreak
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 30 August 2014
Liberia is building five new Ebola treatment centres each with capacity for 100 beds as it struggles to contain the spread of world's biggest outbreak of the deadly disease,… Read more »
Liberia Builds New Ebola Centers
As the country struggles to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, health officials say the government is building five new centers that will be able to host 100 patients each when completed.
CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden (in the middle), dressed in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), talks to patients confirmed to have Ebola at a treatment center operated by Medecins sans Frontieres at ELWA Hospital in Monrovia.
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