Liberian Health Workers to Strike over Ebola Hazard Pay

In Liberia and Sierra Leone, the two countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic, local staff working on the front lines are demanding hazard pay. Bodies are being left in the streets in Sierra Leone as burial teams stop working, saying they haven’t been getting their weekly allowances. In Liberia, thousands of health workers are threatening to strike starting Monday. The Liberian Health Workers Association said it was calling on its approximately 15,000 members not to go to...

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