The workers were protesting against  over non-payment of risk allowances.

The strikers left at least a dozen corpses around the public hospital in the city of Kenema, once one of the epicentres of the epidemic.

Bodies were also abandoned outside the offices of hospital managers.

Ebola is spread through contact with bodily fluids and the risk of infection is particularly high with the corpse of someone who has recently died.

Head of the National Ebola Response Centre Paul Conteh says it’s unacceptable that in their quest for money the strikers ignored the dignity and respect for the dead.

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