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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone burial teams have gone back to work one day after organizing a strike over pay and abandoning the dead bodies of Ebola victims in the capital. In ...
Burial workers in Sierra Leone have dumped bodies in the street outside a hospital in protest at authorities' failure to pay bonuses for handling Ebola victims. Residents said up to 15 corpses had ...
The Ebola burial teams are comprised of 600 workers in groups of 12 per team. Dead bodies were being left in homes and on the streets of the capital Freetown, the Sierra Leone Broadcasting ...
They endured stigma, abuse, attacks from traumatized and terrified communities as they worked to curb epidemic by safely burying highly infectious bodies of Ebola dead ...
The BBC spent the day with Red Cross Burial Team 9 in the capital of Sierra Leone The death toll from Ebola in west Africa has this week passed 8,000. More than 20,000 people have been infected in ...
Workers employed by Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health to bury Ebola victims took drastic action in a dispute over pay, abandoning the bodies of 15 people. CNN values your feedback 1.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – A police official says health workers in Sierra Leone have come under attack while trying to bury the bodies of five Ebola victims east of the capital. Sgt. Edward Momoh ...
Indeed, the entire burial team at Kenema Government Hospital was fired after the corpse demonstration. Related Stories Roughly $1.8 Billion in Ebola Relief Donations Haven't Made it to Africa ...
Burial team in Waterloo, Sierra Leone. Getty Images. ... Health workers are especially vulnerable to Ebola, which is spread by contact with the bodily fluids of infected people.
A burial team from the Liberian Ministry of Health unloads the bodies of Ebola victims onto a funeral pyre at a crematorium on August 22 in Marshall, Liberia. John Moore/Getty Images video ...
BBC's global health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar spends a day with the Sierra Leone Red Cross Burial Team in the capital Freetown.
The BBC spent the day with Red Cross Burial Team 9 in the capital of Sierra Leone The death toll from Ebola in west Africa has this week passed 8,000. More than 20,000 people have been infected in ...