(VOVworld) - The president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has implored US President Barack Obama for help in managing her country’s rapidly expanding Ebola crisis.

Medical workers are carrying bodies of Ebola patients at Elwa in Monrovia, Liberia (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Ms. Sirleaf stressed that without American assistance the disease could send Liberia into the civil chaos that enveloped the country for two decades. In a letter sent to President Obama on Tuesday, Ms. Johnson Sirleaf urgently requested 1,500 additional beds in new hospitals across the country and urged that the United States military set up and run a 100-bed Ebola hospital in the besieged capital, Monrovia. Ms. Sirleaf said Liberia is facing shortage of up to 1,000 hospital beds in the capital as well as in 10 medical clinics across the country.