UN to take over Ebola payment in Sierra Leone...Shameful...we cant even coordinate payments of health workers just becuz of Yuki Yuki by some criminals UN to take over Ebola payment in Sierra Leone The United Nations is to take over the payment of frontline health workers dealing with Ebola in all three countries hardest hit by the virus as a means “to strengthen the battle against Ebola”. According to a press release from the UN headquarters in New York issued yesterday, “the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is working with the authorities in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to coordinate payments for thousands of treatment centre staff, lab technicians, contacts tracers and burial teams” many of whom have been on strikes over delayed payment especially in Sierra Leone. “Success in the response, down to the district level, depends on these women and men who are risking their lives every day to fight the disease,” the release quotes UNDP administrator Helen Clark as saying. “Paying them in a timely manner is crucial. That helps to sustain them and their families, and it ensures a steady inflow of personnel who can help stop this disease outbreak,” she said. The release says UNDP is working with the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) to track payments and improve the current systems through which payments are being delivered to the Ebola response workers. “The objective is not only to support governments – which handle payrolls – and partners to continue to pay the workers’ salaries and incentives on time, but also to strengthen and develop systems that will expand access to affordable financial services after this medical emergency is over” it says. The UNDP technical advisors in Sierra Leone helped the government with two nationwide payments in November of more than 12,000 Ebola response workers. “Beyond the immediate response, UNDP will also make welfare payments to vulnerable communities affected by the disease, focusing on survivors and families who lost relatives or are helping orphaned children, as well as groups who lost their livelihoods as a result of the crisis” the release says.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 15:09:50 +0000
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