The Ebola scare in Liberia has reached such a frenzy that hospitals and medical centers are closing throughout the country, killing those suffering from other ailments because they can’t get the help they need, warned Liberia’s president on Tuesday.

Speaking via satellite to an Ebola conference at Georgetown University, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said that the soaring death rate among non-Ebola patients threatens to reverse the strides made in the nation against killers like AIDS and malaria.