Sierra Leone Ebola crisis sent more than 400 health workers treating patients infected with the virus in a strike at a clinic in the region.
The health workers including nurses, porters and cleaners in a Bandajuma clinic protested about the government's failure to give them the agreed weekly "hazard payment" of $100, BBC reports.
The Bandajuma clinic is the only Ebola treatment center in southern Sierra Leone. Medical charity MSF, the one running the clinic told that it would be forced to close own the facility if protests will not stop any moment.
Meanwhile in Mali, the second and third person to die from Ebola is a nurse and the patient he was treating. The nurse, 25 treated a patient at the Pasteur Clinic who is a traditional Muslim healer in his 50s who had recently arrived from Guinea. The two were the latest cases of deaths due to Ebola virus in the area and the place have been in quarantine.
The nurse protesters in the Sierra Leone Ebola crisis claim that the government failed to meet any "hazard payment" since September which was agreed when the facility was established. The payment should be on top of the expected salaries that the clinic staff receives from MSF.
Despite of this protest on the delayed payment, the Sierra Leone government announced a payment of $5,000 to the Sierra Leone Ebola crisis health workers who died in treating patients infected by the deadly virus, reports The Independent. The announcement was also released after the confirmation of the sixth doctor as another patient evaluated positive for Ebola.
The National Ebola Response Centre told the payment will benefit relatives of the more than 100 health workers who have died from the Sierra Leone Ebola crisis which includes the five doctors who were previously assessed to be positive with the virus.
Sierra Leone Ebola crisis is one among the West African regions battered by at least 1,062 deaths from this virus. According to WHO, the numbers of people infected have risen from 4,950 to 13,000 from all over the country.
