Health care workers in Liberia continue to risk their lives to treat Ebola patients, even with a shortage of safety equipment.
Torli Krua, a Liberian pastor and human rights activist, joined NECN to discuss the efforts.
Krua wrote a letter to President Obama asking for temporary protected status for thousands of people from West Africa.
"If the president doesn't give the temporary protective status, what it does for people here is to feel that we are safe," Krua explained. "I know people in my congregation who were stranded here since August who need that temporary protective status of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia."
Krua says that because doctors and nurses are dying in West Africa, the amount of health care workers needs to be replenished.
In addition, Krua explained that the stigma of Ebola needs to be addressed.
"I already have people who want to come to my church and because we have a lot of Liberians, they're saying 'I don't want to go to that church because I might catch Ebola.' That's how bad it is," Krua said. "We have the resources, we have the expertise, and we need to come together to reach out and stop this because eventually, it's going to keep spreading and spreading and spreading,"
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A Liberian health official put out a call for nearly 80,000 body suits over the next six months as the country battles the deadly virus.
2,425 Liberians, including 95 health care workers, have died since the Ebola outbreak began.
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