BBC   by CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY                        Dec. 8, 2014

FREETOWN -- Junior doctors in Sierra Leonewent on strike Monday to demand better treatment for health workers infected with Ebola, a health official said.

The association representing junior doctors asked the government to make sure life-saving equipment, like dialysis machines, is available to treat infected doctors. The government has promised that a new, fully equipped unit is opening soon near the capital. But the doctors began their strike anyway, according to Health Ministry spokesman Jonathan Abass Kamara.

Ten of the 11 Sierra Leonean doctors who have become infected have died....

As infection rates in Liberia and Guinea begin to stabilize, Sierra Leone has now recorded the highest number of cases, and Sierra Leoneans have been asking why the disease is picking up pace there.  Some have lashed out at the British response. In particular, the charity Save the Children, which is running the first U.K.-built treatment center to open, has been criticized for a slow and disorganized rollout.

The charity defended itself Monday, saying it stepped into a role at the Kerry Town center that no one else wanted and was learning as it went. It said it is slowly opening more beds, as is the best practice. A month after the center opened, 40 of 80 planned beds are operational.

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