Obama to ask for $88 million to boost anti-Ebola effort

Obama is due to outline his plan on Tuesday during a visit to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.

The initiative could include sending additional portable hospitals, doctors and health care experts, as well as providing medical supplies and training local health workers, the Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying. 

It is expected to have four components: controlling the outbreak where it emerged in West Africa; increasing the competence of the region’s public health system, especially in hard-hit Liberia; building local capacity through enhanced health care provider training; and increasing support from international organizations such as the UN and World Health Organization.

‘There’s a lot that we’ve been putting toward this, but it is not sufficient,’ Obama’s counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco said. 

‘So the president has directed a more scaled-up response and that’s what you’re going to hear more about on Tuesday.’The US military could help direct supplies, set up tent hospitals and deploy medical personnel needed around the world to isolate and treat those affected in order to improve their chances of recovery.

‘We think these measures, this enhanced response, will help us bring this under control,’ an administration official said.