
President Barack Obama has decided to appoint senior personnel to Dallas to help deal with the Ebola disease, the White House said Friday.
According to a statement released by the White House, Obama will send two senior officials to coordinate and work closely with state and local authorities as well as frontline health care workers in Dallas in order to ensure the Dallas response "nimble."
An experienced coordinator from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be appointed to ensure federal assistance meets urgent needs, and a White House liaison also will serve on the ground in Dallas to fulfill Obama's pledge to provide all necessary federal resources, the White House said.
The statement did not mention the names of the officials.
Obama made the decision at a meeting on Friday with his national security and health teams.
Earlier Friday, Obama appointed Ron Klain as Ebola response coordinator, who will oversee the U.S. government's response to the virus and report directly to Obama's homeland security and national security advisors, Lisa Monaco and Susan Rice.
The U.S. government's Ebola response has drawn criticism after Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian, and two nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for him were diagnosed with the deadly disease.
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