Ebola victims sue Sierra Leone govt

Freetown- Two Ebola victims in Sierra Leone filed a lawsuit in a regional court on Friday, accusing the government of mismanaging funds during an epidemic that killed more than 3 000 people in West African nation.

more than 11 300 people died in total during the worst outbreak of the highly contagious disease,which mainly affected Guinea,Liberia and Sierra Leone from 2013 to 2016.

Foreign governments and health organisations poured millions of dollars into the three nations to halt the epidemic's spread, but local authorities in Sierra Leone were dogged by allegations of corruption and misuse of funds,

the government had pledged to investigate any accusations but so far there have been no prosecutions related to misspent government Ebola resources.

"Sierra Leoneans have repeatedly demanded accountability and justice for the mismanagement of Ebola response funds, but their demands have fallen on deaf ear," said Ibrahim Tommy of the Centre of Accountability and Rule of Law who is helping the plaintiffs.
the two Ebola survivors, who contracted the disease while serving as health workers, blame inadequate resources provided by the government for their infections and the subsequent deaths of many of their colleagues- REUTERS.