AlHijjah 18, 1435, October 12, 2014, SPA -- Liberian officials are pleading with nurses and physician assistants to show up to work Monday amid a dispute over hazard pay that has prompted calls for a strike in the middle of the Ebola epidemic, AP reported. A strike could deliver a serious blow to the fight against Ebola in Liberia, where the World Health Organization has recorded more than 2,300 confirmed, suspected and probable deaths from the deadly disease more than any other country. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf personally toured Ebola treatment units around Monrovia on Saturday asking health workers to remain in their posts, assistant health minister Tolbert Nyenswah said Sunday. "Everybody is appealing because it has adverse and very negative consequences on people suffering from Ebola and progress that has been made with the fight," Nyenswah said.
