U.S. MILITARY TO LEAD $750 MILLION FIGHT AGAINST EBOLA
Build Centers & Organize Quarantine & Treatment in West Africa
--Attorney Patryk Utulu

President Obama is set to announce that the U.S. military will lead a $759M fight against Ebola across West Africa. America will dispatch 3,000 military personnel to West Africa at a cost of $750 million over the next six months.

The U.S. Africa [Military] Command will send a general to Liberia this week to lead Operation United Assistance. S/he will coordinate U.S./International relief efforts to accelerate transportation of urgently needed equipment and supplies and doctors. The U.S. Pentagon will send engineers to set up 17 treatment centers in Liberia — each center with a 100-bed capacity — and medical personnel to train up to 500 health-care workers per week for West Africa'

Liberia's Ebola transmission rates are increasing exponentially and there is a sense the world is losing the battle to contain this Ebola outbreak. Though the OFFICIAL death toll is at least 2,400 people in 5 African nations, it is believed the death toll is much higher because people hide family members with Ebola. The efforts “won’t happen overnight" says a U.S. official.” It will take several weeks for training of health-care workers to be up and running smoothly.

The hardest-hit nations (Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea) have no resources to combat the epidemic. USA has spent $175 million responding to Ebola outbreak and has dispatched 100 Center for Disease Control experts. The Pentagon will send a 25-bed hospital to Liberia designed to care for health-care workers who become ill. The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps will deploy 65 Corps officers to Liberia to staff and manage hospitals. The U.S. has set up a mobile laboratory in Liberia and another two are on the way. USA will expand treatment and training facilities, and send enough basic Ebola response kits to supply 400,000 households. The U.S. Agency for International Development will airlift 50,000 home health-care kits from Denmark to Liberia to be hand-delivered to distant communities by trained youth volunteers.

Many national airlines have stopped flights to nations affected by the Ebola virus and some African nations, e.g. Kenya already shut their borders completely to citizens of nations affected by the Ebola outbreak. America and the International community have been increasingly criticized for a rather slow response to this Ebola outbreak and it appears that USA is finally responding to that criticism.

Patryk A. Utulu is a U.S.-based attorney and Strategic Communications Specialist
Global Defense Analyst and Global Events Commentator
Executive Vice President, Nigerian Diaspora-North America
Executive Director, The Center for Community Empowerment and Lifeskills, Inc.
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