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Burial workers in Ebola-ravaged Sierra Leone have downed tools in protest over unpaid bonuses, with a spokesman for the striking workers adding that they are owed their weekly hazard allowance of seven weeks.
The aggrieved workers have dumped dead bodies on the street outside a hospital, and residents are saying that up to 15 corpses had been abandoned in Kenema (east Sierra Leone).
Healthcare workers have repeatedly gone on strike in Liberia and Sierra Leone over pay and dangerous working conditions as the virus has claimed over 5,400 lives since its outbreak earlier this year.
Reacting to the development, the spokesman for the National Ebola Response Centre, Sidi Yahya Tunis said: “Displaying corpses in a very, very inhumane manner is completely unacceptable”.
