Efforts to fight Ebola may be impeded by a shortage in trained staff, global healthcare experts have said.
The warning comes after US President Barack Obama committed $500 million and 3,000 troops to combat the outbreak, which has been declared the worst in history.
As part of the response, 17 Ebola treatment centres, each with a 100 bed capacity, will be built across Liberia. According to officials, 230 trained staff including 12 medical experts, are required to operate a 100-bed clinic.
Despite plans to also set up a training centre, there are concerns that a lack of staff will be available when the clinics are set to open in October.
"Building hospitals and equipping them is great. But unless you have trained personnel to work in them, that is not going to help," senior vice president of the global healthcare non-profit International Medical Corps, Rabih Torbay, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"Seventeen thousand beds, but who is going to staff them?"
Torbay, who also leads the group's Ebola response, said fears of contracting the disease had led to a drastic drop in the number of volunteers willing to go to affected regions.
Furthermore, organisations faced the difficult task of training staff to run the clinics.
According to Athalia Christie, deputy for global health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 10 days of classroom and practical work would be required before workers could operate hospitals.
Additionally, relief staff would need to be replaced every four to six weeks from exhaustion - emotionally because of the high death toll and infection rate of the disease, and physically from wearing five layers of protective gear in extremely hot weather.
An estimated 4,366 people have been affected by the virus, with 2,218 deaths being confirmed by the World Health Organization.