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| Health worker carrying man suspected to be dying of Ebola on Friday 31st, 2014. |
The Liberia's president has commissioned the opening of one of the country's largest Ebola treatment centers in Monrovia on Friday amid hopes that the disease is finally on the decline in this West African country.
AP reports that those in attendance today is the Americanand U.N. officials as well as Cuban doctors were there to support the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has she opened the treatment center, which is set up to hold 200 patients and can eventually treat as many as 300.
With the opening of the center, an Ebola treatment unit at JFK Medical Center has been closed. Many people with other diseases had been nervous about going to the nation's largest referral hospital, and officials hope they will now come back.
The opening of the center, built out of white plastic sheeting with USAID written across it, comes as fewer people are showing up for treatment at various centers.
Credit: AP
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