Uganda: Bundibugyo Nurses Strike

4 December 2007

Kampala/Bundibugyo — HEALTH workers handling Ebola patients in Bundibugyo temporarily abandoned duty yesterday morning over delayed payment of their risk allowances and only resumed work after local leaders cleared the overdue bills in the afternoon.

Citing eight of their colleagues who have since contracted the disease while on duty, one health worker said their condition of work was precarious and it was "inhumane" for government officials to hold back "our" little pay.

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