NPR: USAID Head Speaks Of Heroic Efforts — And Heroes — In West Africa
“More than 300 beds in a matter of weeks. That’s the plan for construction of the ‘world’s largest Ebola treatment unit’ in Liberia, says Rajiv Shah, head of USAID, the U.S. Agency for International Development. It’s one of 18 facilities going up in Liberia alone. The czar of the federal agency for foreign aid took a break from his tour of West Africa, where he is monitoring the progress of American interventions, to speak with Morning Edition’s Rachel Martin…” (10/16).