MONROVIA, March 20 -- Despite multiple press conferences held by the health authorities on their preparedness to contain the Coronavirus in Liberia, there are emerging reports from the 14 Military Hospital which is being used as a quarantine center for the infected and high-risk individuals, that lack of medication and Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) remain a major challenge in caring for those quarantined there.

In September 2014, during the height of the Ebola

Virus Disease, the lack of PPE, the hazardous material-style suits which guard against

infectious diseases, became a major impediment in the fight

against the virus, causing nurses to strike, leaving several hundreds of infected

persons at the time helpless.

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