00:00More health workers went on strike in Borneo in eastern Congo on Wednesday,
00:05becoming the latest group to work off the job over unpaid salaries at the center of the country's Ebola outbreak.
00:12Health professionals and other frontline workers barricaded the entrance to Borneo General Hospital,
00:17saying they have not received any compensation despite working under difficult conditions.
00:24They keep telling us it will be okay, but we don't need to be told it will be okay.
00:30We need our money.
00:33Since we started the job two and a half months ago, we haven't received anything.
00:38We are suffering the consequences because of the community situation.
00:42We save lives in the community, and to this day, it's like they are biased in who they pay.
00:48They aren't paying us.
00:49The DRC has been battling the Ebola outbreak caused by the rare Bundibu Guevara since May 15.
00:56Health care workers also staged a strike Monday nearby Ruampara,
01:00another one of the hardest-hit towns in this Ebola outbreak, citing similar grievances.
01:07What I see are health care workers and Ebola response personnel doing good work,
01:12but they aren't being paid.
01:13As soon as they ask for their money, things get complicated.
01:19Two months since the onset, the outbreak continues to spread faster than health officials can track,
01:24despite an expanding response.
01:27At least 80% of new cases are emerging from unknown chains of transmission,
01:31according to the World Health Organization.
01:33The Oraos wrapped around the era of ḳ issue known as the maritime of law condition.
01:35On the other hand it was different.
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