Liberia: U.S.$25 to Bury Ebola Victims

Mr. Keith Jubah, an official of Liberia's Ministry of Health & Social Welfare (MoH&SW), said the Ministry's leadership gives US$25 as daily per diem to each official appointed to bury a person who died of Ebola. There's an additional US$350 as monthly per diem for each person, besides the general salary, he explained further.

Mr. Jubah made the revelation Friday, July 25, during a casual conversation among a group of acquaintances in front of a wooden shack marked "Intellectuals United for Progress & Development (IUPAD)" in Saye Town, Sinkor.

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