U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is due to meet with European Union leaders and give an address Thursday in Brussels calling for more resources to combat the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,900 people in West Africa.
The stop in Belgium follows her visits in the past week to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the vast majority of the nearly 14,000 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of Ebola have occurred.
She met Wednesday with the chief of the U.N.'s Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, Anthony Banbury, at the mission's headquarters in Accra, Ghana, where the two toured an aid warehouse and gave an update on response efforts.
Banbury said a "significant mobilization of personnel" and other resources are beginning to make an impact, but that more is needed.
"What we need are three basic things to get this crisis under control, to add to the effort. We need people, especially trained medical personnel -- people who can operate clinics, Ebola treatment clinics, community care centers. We need material and we need money," said Banbury.
The World Health Organization also gave its latest update on the outbreak Wednesday, warning that the transmission of Ebola "remains intense" in the capitals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It also highlighted the need for more funding, saying the U.N. is short more than a third of the $260 million it has asked for in order to carry out its Ebola response plans.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obama's top Ebola official, Ron Klain, is meeting Thursday in Atlanta with officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It will be his first in-person meeting with the CDC since taking the post two weeks ago.
Obama said Wednesday the U.S. may continue to see more cases of Ebola until the outbreak in West Africa is contained. He also honored U.S. health workers who have already returned from working in West Africa and those who plan to go in the future, calling them heroes acting out of a sense of duty.