Ebola nurses go on strike in Liberia

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Comment - I can't believe that they still don't have basic supplies of PPE.

Ebola nurses go on strike in Liberia

Nurses at Liberia's largest hospital have gone on strike demanding better pay and equipment to protect them against a deadly Ebola epidemic which has killed hundreds in the west African nation.

John Tugbeh, spokesman for the strikers at Monrovia's John F Kennedy hospital, says the nurses won't return to work until they are supplied with "personal protective equipment (PPEs)", the hazmat-style suits that guard against infectious diseases.

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Re: Ebola nurses go on strike in Liberia

Liberia health workers to go on strike over Ebola danger pay

MONROVIA - Healthcare workers in Liberia, the country hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, will go on strike from Monday to demand hazard pay for treating patients infected with the deadly disease, their union leader said.

"Beginning tomorrow we will be on a nationwide strike in every hospital and every health centre including ETUs (Ebola Treatment Units)," said Joseph Tamba, chairman of the health workers' union.

Staff at Monrovia's Island Clinic, the largest government-run Ebola clinic in the capital, have already been on a "go slow" in recent days in their battle for extra pay -- defying a request by health officials to avoid industrial action during the Ebola crisis, which has killed over 4,000 people in west Africa.

Dozens of patients in the clinic have died from Ebola since the go-slow began on Friday, said staff representative Alphonso Wesseh.

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In Liberia alone, 95 healthcare workers have died from the tropical fever, out of 201 infected, according to the latest WHO figures.

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These workers have been doing a very dangerous job and many have paid with their lives.