The suspension of many flights in and out of West Africa has made it difficult to get vital aid in to help fight against Ebola, Samaritan's Purse president Franklin Graham said this week.
Graham said he raised the issue at a meeting with White House officials this week, where he was accompanied by Dr Kent Brantly, the first person infected in the Ebola outbreak to be treated in the United States.
One Samaritan's Purse shipment of supplies has just been airlifted to Liberia and another is scheduled for next week, but Graham suggested there needed to be many more going to the Ebola-ravaged country.
Speaking on Fox News Channel's On the Record show after meeting US President Barack Obama, Graham said: "Airlines have quit flying. All of our supplies, we have to charter flights. We have a 747 going next week full of equipment and gear. I asked if we can have an air bridge. We need planes flying on a schedule every week that would carry cargo and carry health care workers."
Dr Brantly said he had spoken to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell about what kind of support was needed on the ground and that she had been "receptive to those conversations".
And asked whether he would go back to West Africa, he replied "I would", although he did not say whether this was something he was considering in the immediate future.
While the Obama administration has been accused by critics of being too slow in its response to the arrival of Ebola in the US, Graham said there was "no question" that the administration was being "aggressive on this issue".
"I think they would admit they are late on some of these issues, but they are focused on it now," he said, before adding that the "clock is ticking in West Africa".
"People are dying and they need help," he said.
The suspension of many flights in and out of West Africa has made it difficult to get vital aid in to help fight against Ebola, Samaritan's Purse president Franklin Graham said this week.
Graham said he raised the issue at a meeting with White House officials this week, where he was accompanied by Dr Kent Brantly, the first person infected in the Ebola outbreak to be treated in the United States.
One Samaritan's Purse shipment of supplies has just been airlifted to Liberia and another is scheduled for next week, but Graham suggested there needed to be many more going to the Ebola-ravaged country.
Speaking on Fox News Channel's On the Record show after meeting US President Barack Obama, Graham said: "Airlines have quit flying. All of our supplies, we have to charter flights. We have a 747 going next week full of equipment and gear. I asked if we can have an air bridge. We need planes flying on a schedule every week that would carry cargo and carry health care workers."
Dr Brantly said he had spoken to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell about what kind of support was needed on the ground and that she had been "receptive to those conversations".
And asked whether he would go back to West Africa, he replied "I would", although he did not say whether this was something he was considering in the immediate future.
While the Obama administration has been accused by critics of being too slow in its response to the arrival of Ebola in the US, Graham said there was "no question" that the administration was being "aggressive on this issue".
"I think they would admit they are late on some of these issues, but they are focused on it now," he said, before adding that the "clock is ticking in West Africa".
"People are dying and they need help," he said.