Liberia Ebola Frontline Fighters Threaten National Strike

Monrovia — With a weak and broken health care delivery system exposed by the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus beginning March, Liberia is inching towards further health catastrophe as health workers, including those working on various Ebola treatment units across the country are threatening mass strike action later this month. Since the outbreak of the virus, Liberia has been finding it difficult to contain the killer disease which has overtaken the health delivery system; with health workers shunning people suffering from other illness for fear that they could contract the virus.

Latest statistics show that Liberia is performing poorly amongst Sierra Leone and Guinea, two other countries fighting the outbreak after Nigeria successfully defeated the virus transferred to that Country by a Liberian, Patrick Sawyer.

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