The amount of Ebola infected patients has begun to outweigh the capacity of a Liberian clinic run by the Ministry of Health. In a measure to ensure some of the infected have a place to be treated, the organization called Doctors Without Borders has opened a new ward in Monrovia, Liberia.

Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres (or MSF), is an international medical humanitarian organization that treats people who are in dire need of assistance in areas all across the world.

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"Schools have shut down, family members have died. These are very urgent social needs," says Tim Shenk, lead communications officer for MSF. "It's a disaster, and it's in need of a greater response."

The World Health Organization has confirmed over 800 cases of Ebola infections with over 450-recorded deaths in Liberia.

The Ebola control ward, called ELWA 3, reportedly only took a couple weeks to build as local construction workers and MSF collaborated together on the project. The ward officially opened Aug. 17 and already has 32 patients who were turned down by the facility run by Ministry of Health. .

The ward has the capacity of 120 beds and is sectioned off in two separate areas, one "low-risk" area in which MSF staff and health officials will be able to do all the necessary precautions before treating the patients - and the other is the "high risk" area in which hold multiple tents with the capacity of 15 patients in each tent.

Once MSF are used to all the procedures and precautions that are required in order to not catch the infection, ELWA 3 will be then be admitting an increased amount of Ebola-infected patients - enough to likely take up all available beds in the facility.

"There are some really urgent needs here, and much more needs to be done," Shenk said. 

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