Unpaid wages and deadly risk: Why health workers are threatening to abandon the Ebola response

Kayimpa is working on the front line of what the World Health Organization says is now “the largest Ebola outbreak ever reported” in the DRC.

Aid agencies say mistrust, misinformation about Ebola, and resistance to restrictions on traditional burial practices have fueled hostility toward health workers and complicated efforts to contain the outbreak.“MSF is continuing to meet its obligations towards staff working in the response,” it said in a statement to CNN, adding that “health workers play an essential role in responding to this outbreak, and it is important that they receive compensation in a timely manner for their work under extremely challenging conditions.”