Dozens at an Ebola treatment center in northeast Congo strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses
Workers say unpaid wages and bonuses since May forced the shutdown as Congo verifies payroll lists amid the outbreak.
- On Monday, dozens of staff at an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo struck over unpaid salaries and bonuses, according to reporting from northeast Congo.
- Rwampara General Hospital staff in Ituri province—epidemiologists, case investigators, drivers and gravediggers—say the Congolese authorities have withheld their wages since the outbreak began in May.
- Protesting staff blocked the road leading to Rwampara General Hospital, effectively shuttering the facility and halting all operations at the treatment center.
- The closure halts critical Ebola response and disease surveillance efforts in Ituri province during an active health crisis affecting the region's outbreak management.
- Staff walkouts expose financial strain on Congo's health system, revealing persistent wage payment failures by Congolese authorities affecting frontline workers during disease outbreaks.
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DR Congo Health Workers On Ebola Front Line Threaten Strike Over Unpaid Wages
Health workers fighting the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo are threatening to strike over unpaid wages, as the World Health Organization warned Tuesday the extent of the epidemic could be four times larger than reported.
The scale of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be two to four times greater than official estimates, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. In the DRC, healthcare workers who haven't been paid for 45 days are on strike.
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coastaltvnews.comDR Congo health workers on Ebola front line threaten strike
The highly infectious virus has killed more than 700 people among the nearly 2,000 confirmed infected in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the outbreak was declared on May 15, according to the latest official toll published on Tuesday. But the WHO said the scale of the outbreak could be two to four times the official estimates. Complicating the response effort, health workers at the epicentre of the epidemic told AFP they had not been paid …
In the province of Ituri, the most affected by the epidemic, the personnel of the centers for the treatment of the disease risk life without salary and with limited equipment
Caregivers mobilized in response to the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo denounce unpaid payments and threaten a total stoppage of work Doctors and caregivers, on the front line
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