"If they [Ebola treatment centers] had been built when we needed them, it wouldn't have been too much… But they were too late," Moses Massaquoi told the newspaper.
According to The Washington Post, about 3,000 US troops were sent to West Africa to build Ebola treatment centers. However, the Ebola outbreak eased significantly before the first American facilities were completed. The newspaper mentions a case in Tumanburg, where only 46 suspected or confirmed cases were referred to the treatment center. Before it was opened, there were around 200 suspected or confirmed cases of the disease in the city.
In Liberia's capital Monrovia, four of seven Ebola treatment centers will soon close due to a lack of patients.
The Ebola virus killed 8,468 people in more than 21,000 cases reported, according to a World Health Organization report published Friday. According to the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, the weekly total of new confirmed Ebola cases in the West Africa has recently declined to its lowest.
