Doctors go on partial strike in Sierra Leone

Junior doctors in Sierra Leone have gone on a partial strike in a bid to demand proper care for health workers who are risking their lives to fight Ebola.

Sierra Leone has lost 106 health workers to Ebola with 10 of them being doctors.

President Ernest Bai Koroma has however assured the striking doctors that their demands will be met.

This comes after aggrieved Sierra Leonean burial teams dumped infected corpses in public to protest the non-payment of their hazard allowances.

The World Health Organization stated on Tuesday, December 9, that Sierra Leone had overtaken Liberia in the number of Ebola cases recorded showing that the disease is still spreading rapidly in the former country.