Liberia football stadium converted into Ebola centre
A football stadium in the Liberian capital Monrovia will be converted to house two large Ebola treatment units, Fifa has announced.
The football federation said it had teamed up with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations to transform the Antoinette Tubman Stadium for use in the fight against the epidemic.
The football federation said it had teamed up with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations to transform the Antoinette Tubman Stadium for use in the fight against the epidemic.
The stadium, which FIFA donated to Liberia's Football Association,
would "serve as the site for two urgently needed large-scale Ebola
treatment units," it said.
"Today we can use the power of football to combat the Ebola epidemic," Fifa president Sepp Blatter said.
"Today we can use the power of football to combat the Ebola epidemic," Fifa president Sepp Blatter said.
