Liberia’s nurses go on strike amid Ebola outbreak

Tuesday, September 2, 2014
By Paul Martin

RT.com
September 02, 2014

In the midst of an Ebola outbreak Liberia’s nurses from the country’s largest hospital went on strike Monday. Calling for higher salaries, they also demanded equipment to protect them from the Ebola virus that has killed hundreds in Liberia.

The nurses will not go back to work until they have “personal protective equipment (PPEs)”, the hazmat-style suits that protect against the spread of the disease, AFP quoted a spokesman for the strikers at Monrovia’s John F. Kennedy hospital, John Tugbeh, as saying.

Despite Ebola being a deadly threat – with 694 registered deaths in Liberia alone – local medics have not been adequately protected against the infection, he said.

“From the beginning of the Ebola outbreak we have not had any protective equipment to work with. As result, so many doctors got infected by the virus. We have to stay home until we get the PPEs,” Tugbeh said.

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