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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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Independent EspañolTens of people working at the main Ebola treatment centre in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo went on strike on Monday for non-payment of wages and bonuses.
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(Johannesburg=Yonhap News) Correspondent Na Hak-jin = As the death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) surpasses 700 and the spread shows no signs of abating...
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