Leaders of West African nations plagued by Ebola say the deadly virus is outpacing the world's response, jeopardising the future of the entire African continent.
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma said the world is not responding fast enough as doctors and nurses continue to die.
A Uganda-born doctor, John Taban Dada, died early yesterday of Ebola at a treatment centre on the outskirts of Liberian capital, Monrovia.
He is the fourth doctor to die in the country since the outbreak.
Over ninety health workers, including nurses and physician's assistants, have been killed by the virus.
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) latest figures, 3,865 people have been killed of Ebola, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Meanwhile, Doctors without Borders have warned of a massive influx of Ebola cases in the Guinean capital, Conakry, with facilities reaching their limits.
The aid group's centre in Conakry received 22 patients last Monday alone, including 18 from the same region 50km east of the city.
There was continued concern about Ebola in Spain, where the first person known to have caught the disease outside West Africa became sick.
The condition of Spanish nursing assistant, Teresa Romero deteriorated on Thursday.
Four doctors have also been admitted to the Madrid hospital for precautionary observation, bringing to eight the number of people being monitored at the centre.
ALJAZEERA/NEWS24
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