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BBC Nov. 12, 2014
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".
There have been almost 300 new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone in the past three days
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone.
The Bandajuma clinic is run by medical charity MSF, which said it would be forced to close the facility if the strike continued. MSF's emergency co-ordinator in Sierra Leone, Ewald Stars, told the BBC that about 60 patients had been left unattended because of the strike at the clinic in Bandajuma.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30019895
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Liberia Is Stiffing Its Contact Tracers
FOREIGN POLICY
By Laurie Garrett Nov. 11. 2014
Of the several thousand contact tracers who had been told that they would, at last, be paid, 600 converged on the ministry on Monday morning, but no paymaster could be found. A single paymaster appeared -- at 3 p.m. -- and departed two hours later, having processed salary payments for fewer than 50 people.
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http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/11/11/liberia_is_stiffing_its_contact_tracers_as_ebola_epidemic_continues?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Flashpoints&utm_campaign=2014_FlashPoints11%2F11RS