United Nations Development Program (UNDP) release.

The release said the 53 year-old mother of five worked at the Gbargbota Clinic in Salayea, Lofa County as a cleaner for nine years.

According to the release, Kollie is among 1,587 routine healthcare workers who benefited from a back payment scheme under a US$2 million World Bank grant, using a Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) which UNDP manages.

Kollie said the nine members of her family the Ebola virus killed included her sister and children who lived in her rented house in Monrovia.

“I was here when they called me and told me that my sister was dead; two weeks later, they told me that they had taken all the children and our mother-in-law to the Ebola Treatment Unit…. When I went there the following week, all of them were dead,” the release quoted Kollie as saying.

She said even though there was no case of Ebola reported at the Gbargbota Clinic, they worked under terrifying conditions during the period of the EVD epidemic.

According to the release, Esther is hoping to use the US$600 hazard back pay she got the period October to December 2014 to complete her four-bedroom house project in Monrovia.
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