Ebola volunteers yet to be paid two months later

President Uhuru Kenyatta with medical volunteers to the African Union Support to Ebola Outbreak in West Africa (ASEOWA) at State House Nairobi in January. (Photo:PSCU)

Kenyan medics, who volunteered to go to West Africa to boost international efforts in fighting Ebola, are yet to be paid and are even struggling to feed themselves, The Standard can report.

The 170 health workers left in January for Sierra Leone and Liberia where they were expected to stay for six months as part of the African Union mission to contain the disease.