Health Workers In Sierra Leone Embarked on Immediate Strike Over Payment and Poor Working Conditions

                        Health workers in Sierra Leone have reportedly embarked on immediate strike over payment and poor working conditions.

Sierra Leone's government is struggling to cope with the worst Ebola outbreak in history that has killed more than 1,550 people across West Africa, with the rate of infection still rising.

"The workers decided to stop working because we have not been paid our allowances and we lack some tools," said Ishmael Mehemoh, chief supervisor at the clinic in the city of Kenema, in the country's east.

Sierra Leone's new health minister, Abubakarr Fofana, who took over on Friday after his predecessor was sacked, said on Saturday that a doctor from the Kenema facility had died.

Meanwhile, the first British victim of the outbreak Will Pooley, 29, is receiving the experimental drug ZMapp in a London hospital in an attempt to save his life.

The volunteer nurse was flown back to Britain from Sierra Leone at the weekend and rushed to a special treatment centre.