US donates USD 5mn to help pay Liberian Ebola medics

October 16, 2014 01:21

The United States has pledged USD 5 million (four million euros) to Liberia to help compensate health workers on the frontline of the Ebola epidemic, the Liberian president's office said today.

Rajiv Shah, the head of the US Agency for International Development, announced the contribution after meeting yesterday with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on the second day of a strike by the health workers over promised hazard pay.

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