Health workers strike at southern Sierra Leone's only Ebola clinic

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Health workers strike at southern Sierra Leone's only Ebola clinic

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/health-workers-strike-southern-sierra-leones-only-ebola-133456928.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Ds83tjWG4miAtbH1Uvys.A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-11-12T133456Z_1_LYNXNPEAAB0QN_RTROPTP_2_HEALTH-EBOLA-SIERRALEONE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A health worker fixes another health worker's protective suit in the Aberdeen district of Freetown" align="left" title="A health worker fixes another health worker's protective suit in the Aberdeen district of Freetown" border="0" /></a>FREETOWN (Reuters) - More than 400 health workers at one of Sierra Leone's few Ebola treatment centers went on strike on Wednesday over unpaid risk allowances the government is meant to fund, officials said, although some of them returned to work later in the day. The clinic in Bandajuma in Bo district has about 60 beds for Ebola patients - about a fifth of Sierra Leone's total Ebola beds - and U.N. officials warn that the number of Ebola cases is surging in Sierra Leone due to a lack of treatment centers. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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