Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone health workers go on strike

[Omaha Steve]

Source: BBC

More than 400 health workers involved in treating Ebola patients have gone on strike at a clinic in Sierra Leone.

The staff, who include nurses, porters and cleaners, are protesting about the government's failure to pay an agreed weekly $100 (£63) "hazard payment".

The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone.

In Mali, a nurse and the patient he was treating earlier became the second and third people to die from Ebola there.

FULL story at link.



There have been almost 300 new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone in the past three days


Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30019895

[drm604]

1. This is far from over.

And it's something we cannot ignore.

If the government can't afford to pay these people, then the west needs to step in and do it.

[uppityperson]

2. From what I read in the past, their wages are so low, difficult to survive on them. It is

a real mess still.

Trying to educate people about how it is spread and how to change the cultural norms of caring for your sick and your dead is huge. Care for, educate, trace contacts, plus lack of equipment.