Hundreds of health workers involved in treating Ebola patients have gone on strike at a clinic in Sierra Leone.
The staff are protesting about the government's failure to pay an agreed weekly $100 (£63) "hazard payment". A few are still assisting at the clinic.
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone.
In Mali, a nurse and a patient became the second and third people thought to have died from Ebola there.
Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak a global health emergency.
The Bandajuma clinic is run by medical charity MSF, which said it would be forced to close the facility if the strike continued.
MSF's emergency co-ordinator in Sierra Leone, Ewald Stars, told the BBC that about 60 patients had been left unattended because of the strike at the clinic in Bandajuma.
Those on strike include nurses, porters and cleaners.

There are international staff at the clinic but they are unable to keep the clinic open on their own.
The staff, who are protesting outside the clinic, say the government agreed to the "hazard payments" when the facility was established but has failed to make any payments since September.
The money was due to be paid in addition to salaries the staff receive from MSF.
On Wednesday afternoon, a representative of the workers told the BBC that a few colleagues had returned to the ward to offer minimal assistance "in the interest of the patients who are our people".
However, he stressed that the strike was still on.
Earlier, representative Mohamed Mbawah told the BBC his colleagues had already turned away one ambulance.
The virus is continuing to spread in Sierra Leone, with almost 300 new infections recorded in the last three days.

Also on Wednesday, the Malian authorities said that a nurse and the patient he was treating at a clinic in Bamako had died.
The 25-year-old nurse worked at the Pasteur Clinic, which has now been placed in quarantine. The government said the nurse was confirmed to have had Ebola.

This news keeps me wondering...When will govts in Africa start being honest?

Why can't these aid agencies take over the payments to the health workers directly? They should stop giving African governments the funds to disseminate ...they governments are all thieves This issue is no longer an African Government thing but a World issue.

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bigtt76:
Why can't these aid agencies take over the payments to the health workers directly? They should stop giving African governments the funds to disseminate ...they governments are all thieves This issue is no longer an African Government thing but a World issue.

In dis case, it is not d agencies dat are paying d hazard allowances. It is d responsibility of d govt. D agency has opened d centre for dem, I believe that means d facilities needed ve been provided. So govt shud jst pay d workers. And imagine, they said since sept, they weren't paid d money. Very sad.