Liberia: CSA Suspends Protesting Phebe Hospital Workers, but Health Minister Opposes the Suspension

SUAKOKO — The Civil Service Agency (CSA) has suspended seven protesting Phebe Hospital workers without pay, a decision the Health Ministry says cannot be enforced, intensifying a standoff that is already disrupting care at one of central Liberia’s most critical referral hospitals.

The Ministry of Information announced Tuesday that the CSA had imposed a one-month suspension on representatives of the aggrieved workers’ leadership, citing disturbances on Feb. 23 and 24 that allegedly disrupted…