WASHINGTON — President Obama, facing criticism that the U.S. and other countries have been slow to respond to the Ebola outbreak, plans to send additional medical aid to West Africa.
The move, to be announced Tuesday when the president travels to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, comes amid rising alarm that the outbreak is overwhelming local health systems and the global aid response.
The president will announce a “ramping up” of U.S. assistance, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.
That additional help would come on top of a Defense Department announcement last week that it would send a 25-bed, $22 million hospital to Liberia to help care for sickened medical workers there.
Last Friday, World Health Organization Director General Dr. Margaret Chan raised the prospect that the epidemic will get far worse before it gets better.
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