The National Private Sector Health Workers' Union of Liberia(NPSHWUL) wishes to express solidarity with nurses around the world via Global Nurses United who are demanding optimal EVD preparedness in their own countries just as they are standing in solidarity with the NPSHWUL and our members.

As health workers are at the epicenter with all the major hospitals in Liberia are closed to the public by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf with women given birth to babies at streets corners in the capital, Monrovia, we support all of our colleagues the world over via Global Nurses United as they demonstrate to the world the direct connection between government austerity plans around the world devastation of public health care systems, war(particularly in West Africa,) and the inadequacy of dealing with pandemics, we want to use this medium to join our colleagues around the world as they demand that the G20 leaders deal with this health issues responsibly as they meet on 13th. November in Brisbane.

The NPSHWUL particularly want to call on the Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott and the American President, Barrack Obama to take the lead in dealing with the issues  mentioned above which we believe they can do owing to the fact that Ebola has no border. 

The NPSHWUL is also calling on G20 to pressurize President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to pay health workers their just salaries owned by her government together with incentives, hazardous benefits, to put in place a social security systems for health workers and their families and the immediate re-opening of the public hospitals she closed several months ago so that people who are suffering from other illnesses can be treated at these health facilities, as well as to re-instate all health workers who were since dismissed. We term this action on the part of President Sirleaf as evil-minded diabolic act. It MUST stop as we speak!  

In SOLIDARITY