Ebola first responders threaten strike if security not improved


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 Apr 2019

FILE PHOTO: Health workers carry a newly admitted confirmed Ebola patient into a treatment centre in Butembo in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, March 28, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/File Photo

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Health workers in one of the epicentres of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak threatened on Wednesday to go on strike as early as next week if authorities don't do more to protect them.

Repeated attacks on treatment centres by armed militiamen and community members who think Ebola is a conspiracy against them have hampered the response to the second-deadliest outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever in history.

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