Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appeals to U.S. President Barack Obama for help to defeat the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded.
Sirleaf said without the urgent aid from the U.S., Liberia would lose its fight against the deadly disease.
Liberia is one of the Ebola worst-hit countries in West Africa since the outbreak began early this year. It has claimed over 2,400 lives so far mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
The World Health Organization earlier warned that the outbreak in Liberia will spread exponentially and the country will see more cases in the coming weeks.
The Liberian government is set to open a 100-bed treatment center while medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres increased its Ebola treatment facility in the capital of the country, Monrovia, to 400 beds.
However, Sirleaf said there was still a shortage of at least 1,000 beds in Monrovia and a need for 10 new Ebola centers in the other parts of the country.
