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Health workers strike at Sierra Leone Ebola hospital
FREETOWN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Health workers have gone on strike at a major state-run Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, over pay and poor working conditions, hospital staff told Reuters on Saturday.
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Clothing to protect health workers being infected is inadequate and there is only one broken stretcher which is used to carry both patients and corpses, Mehemoh added.
More than 20 health workers have already died from Ebola at the Kenema health clinic after catching the highly contagious virus from the patients they are fighting to save.
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http://www.trust.org/item/20140830183655-5x1p9/?source=fiTheWire
FREETOWN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Health workers have gone on strike at a major state-run Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, over pay and poor working conditions, hospital staff told Reuters on Saturday.
-snip-
Clothing to protect health workers being infected is inadequate and there is only one broken stretcher which is used to carry both patients and corpses, Mehemoh added.
More than 20 health workers have already died from Ebola at the Kenema health clinic after catching the highly contagious virus from the patients they are fighting to save.
more...
http://www.trust.org/item/20140830183655-5x1p9/?source=fiTheWire