Sierra Leone Medics Get Huge Pay Rise After Strike
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Published: April 3, 2010
Sierra Leone Medics Get Huge Pay Rise After Strike
Adetayo Adelaja
A six-fold pay rise for health workers in Sierra Leone was agreed late on Saturday night to end the 10-day old strike. The strike organizer, Dr Freddie Coker, said that doctors would now get a take-home salary of 600 US dollars – up from 100 US dollars a month. The strike led to the closure of the country’s main children’s hospital and several wards of the maternity hospital in Freetown. Army and police nurses had to be drafted in. President Ernest Bai Koroma said the industrial action had led to patients dying. President Koroma told health workers to return to work by today or be sacked, but, agreed that the health workers demands were justified.
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