Workers employed by Sierra Leone 's Ministry of Health to bury Ebola victims took drastic action this week in a dispute over pay , abandoning the bodies of 15 people in the street . Some were paraded at the entrance to a hospital Monday to stop people from entering . Another body was placed outside the entrance to a hospital administrative building . The workers have gone on strike because they say they are owed seven weeks of their `` hazard '' pay of $ 100 a week . Burying Ebola victims is a dangerous task , since the deadly virus is spread through contact with bodily fluids . The bodies were all cleared as of Tuesday after burial teams working for the Red Cross , rather than the state , were called in . The National Ebola Response Center has announced the sacking of all involved in the strike , said Sidi Yahyah Tunis , a spokesman for the center . Sierra Leone , Liberia and Guinea are the three West African countries at the heart of the current Ebola outbreak . The vast majority of more than 15,000 Ebola cases and more than 5,000 deaths caused by the virus in recent months have occurred in those three nations , according to a World Health Organization report out Friday . WHO : Democratic Republic of Congo is Ebola-free .
Burial workers in Sierra Leone go on strike over their pay . They dump the bodies of the victims outside a hospital . The National Emergency Response Center says the workers will be sacked .