Liberian officials on Sunday pleaded with nurses and physician assistants to show up to work on Monday amid a dispute over hazard pay that has prompted calls
for a strike in themiddle of the Ebola epidemic.
The Assistant health minister Tolbert Nyenswah who in a statement on Sunday appealed to the health workers that the proposed strike would have
"very negative consequences" for the fight against Ebola, which is believed to have killed more than 3 000 people in Liberia and more than 4 000 world wide.
George Williams, leader of the National Health Workers Association, said members are demanding $700 per month in hazard pay on top of monthly salaries that are generally around $200 or $300. Monthly hazard pay is currently less than $500. The health ministry says about 1 000 members
of the association are working in treatment units across the country.
Pledges of financial aid to fight Ebola have fallen far short of the $1bn needed by the UN, with only one quarter of the amount raised, a UN official said on Friday.
Mobilisation UN deputy secretary general Jan Eliasson also appealed for doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel to come forward to work
in desperately needed treatment centres to be set up in West Africa.
On Saturday, the UN special envoy on Ebola said the number of cases is probably doubling every three to four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October.
"very negative consequences" for the fight against Ebola, which is believed to have killed more than 3 000 people in Liberia and more than 4 000 world wide.
George Williams, leader of the National Health Workers Association, said members are demanding $700 per month in hazard pay on top of monthly salaries that are generally around $200 or $300. Monthly hazard pay is currently less than $500. The health ministry says about 1 000 members
of the association are working in treatment units across the country.
Pledges of financial aid to fight Ebola have fallen far short of the $1bn needed by the UN, with only one quarter of the amount raised, a UN official said on Friday.
Mobilisation UN deputy secretary general Jan Eliasson also appealed for doctors, nurses and other healthcare personnel to come forward to work
in desperately needed treatment centres to be set up in West Africa.
On Saturday, the UN special envoy on Ebola said the number of cases is probably doubling every three to four weeks and the response needs to be 20 times greater than it was at the beginning of October.
Together as Africans we can do great things #AlwaysPray4Liberia.
Cleanliness is the only prevention for Ebola.
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