Liberia president apologises for high toll for Ebola health workers

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Liberia president apologises for high toll for Ebola health workers

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/liberia-president-apologises-high-toll-ebola-health-workers-073848864.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/NPx9wfD6Izf85C_KDeHmng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-08-16T073848Z_1007970001_LYNXMPEA7F01B_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-UK-HEALTH-EBOLA-BORDERS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Liberian President Johnson-Sirleaf speaks during an interview with Reuters in Brussels" align="left" title="Liberian President Johnson-Sirleaf speaks during an interview with Reuters in Brussels" border="0" /></a>By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) - Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologised on Saturday for the high death toll among the country's healthcare workers who have fought an Ebola outbreak, which has killed nearly 1,000 people in three countries. Johnson Sirleaf pledged up to $18 million for the Ebola fight, part of which will be given to health workers to help with insurance and death benefits, to fund more ambulances and to increase the number of treatment centres. &quot;If we haven't done enough so far, I have come to apologise to you,&quot; she told hundreds of health workers who gathered at Monrovia's City Hall for a meeting with her government. The West African Ebola outbreak, centred on Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, is the worst in history.</p><br clear="all"/>

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