The Ebola burial team went on strike leaving dead bodies on the streets and homes of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown.
The workers have complained that they have not been paid for
transporting the victims up until Wednesday, making a high risk for
citizens.
The woman shows her distress as the body of Ebola victim is taken away by a team of volunteers.
The burial crews of 600 workers were organized in groups of 12. The
teams are supposed to be paid up to 100 U.S. dollars (about N16,200)
each week to remove the bodies of Ebola victims.
A woman collapses after volunteers take away the body of a woman who died from the Ebola.
The Health Ministry spokesman, Sidie Yahya Tunis, described the situation as “very embarrassing“.“The health ministry is going to investigate the delay in the health workers not receiving their money,” she said.
Relatives and friends help the woman as she falls outside after seeing an Ebola victim’s body removed from a nearby house.
However, the Deputy Health Minister, Madina Rahman, said in a radio program that the strike has been ‘resolved’.The disagreement centered on a one-week backlog for hazard pay, which had been put in the bank, but was not given to the burial team on time.
Sierra Leone burial team went back to work one day after organizing the strike.
Volunteers remove the body of Ebola dead from the street.
Finally, the rotting bodies of Ebola victims have been reportedly removed from the streets of Freetown.
Volunteers in Waterloo, Sierra Leone bury the dead after burial teams strike action.
The Ebola victims’ dead bodies are highly infectious, increasing fears more people were at risk of contracting the disease.
The grave of Ebola victim Ballah Kollie, who died on October, 6, 2014.
The World Health Organization says Ebola is believed to have killed
more than 600 people in Sierra Leone only. The number of confirmed cases
in this single country is more than 2,100 so far.
