USAID to Support Ebola Centres in Liberia with 75 Million Dollars

The US Agency for International Development, USAID, says it would donate 75 million dollars to fund one thousand more beds in Ebola treatment centres in Liberia. 

It would also buy 130 thousand more protective suits for health care workers.

The donation comes after health workers in ELWA hospital in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, said they do not have enough protective suits as the hospital is still overwhelmed with Ebola patients.

The nurses in Liberia are said to be wearing rags over their heads to protect themselves from the dreaded disease, amid concerns that shortages of protective gear throughout the region are responsible for the high Ebola death toll among health workers.

The Agency also urged American health care workers to respond to the outbreak.


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