Liberia Ebola Workers Strike as 80% Without Safety Equipment
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Liberia’s health workers walked off the job today demanding hazard pay and more equipment to help fight the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
About eight out of 10 workers don’t have the protective equipment including goggles, masks, boots and suits necessary to attend to patients with the virus, Liberia Health Workers Association Secretary-General George Williams said today. Some workers are reusing the supplies, which are meant to be destroyed after coming in contact with infected fluids, he said by phone from the capital, Monrovia. The group has about 8,000 members.