Washington, D.C. – President Obama said requested Congress on Wednesday for $6.2 funding to fight the Ebola epidemic and to prepare urgent care near me and hospitals in the country against the possibility of spread in the U.S.
According to the officials of President Obama’s Administration, $2 billon of the emergency fund would be allocated for urgent care need in the United States Agency for International Development. Also, $2.4 billion will be apportioned to the Department of Health and Human Services and $1.5 billion will be allotted for an emergency fund dealing with any unpredicted development like a need to vaccinate the volunteer doctors and nurses in an urgent care clinic if they came from the Ebola-ravaged countries or a flare-up in West Africa for instance.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on the other hand, voted a new director for its office in Africa, Matshidiso Moeti. He is a WHO veteran, a doctor from Botswana who left his position in March as the deputy director for Africa, the same month when the crisis in the country was declared. Moeti has been alleged of bungling the outbreak response in its initial stages.
While President Obama rushed the Congress for speedy action on his demand for the $6.2 billion funding to battle Ebola, the World Health Organization had its own declaration the same day. WHO reported that 4,818 people already lost their lives in urgent care clinics because of Ebola and every region in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea have been affected.
Meanwhile, the federal officials of New Orleans presented a plan of testing multiple Ebola drugs at once. They plan to have an umbrella study with one comparison group to deliver quick answers on what drugs work. This test is led by cancer researchers according to head of U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Ebola response Dr. Luciana Borio. She provided a summary of the plan to test multiple drugs on Wednesday in New Orleans, at a conference on American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
President Obama is asking the Congress for immediate action which means that it wants the fund to be approved during the present lame duck session. This is while the Democrats are still governing the Senate. The White House wants the funds on an ‘emergency basis’ which means that it should be put under the deficit category of the government’s funds.
