London Mining donates medical items to Lunsar Health Clinic

London Mining Company (LMC) on Friday 13th June donated medical items to the Lunsar Health Clinic in promoting good health for the Lunsar people. Speaking at the handing over ceremony of the items, Community Relations and Resettlement Manager, Mr. Desmond Doherty, said that London Mining Company is in a good relationship with the Lunsar community [...]

Meet Mister Moringa

I never knew how valuable was Moringa until I met Charles Boyle, popularly called Doctor Moringa. Almost everything about Charles Boyle is Moringa. He eats Moringa and drinks Moringa, the miracle tree that cures almost every disease. Charles Boyle informed me that Moringa has a very high nutritional and medicinal value. The Moringa tree is [...]

ACC schools health workers in Bombali District.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Tuesday 4th June 2013, educated health workers at Peripheral Health Units (PHUs), Community Health Centers (CHCs), and Community Health Posts (CHPs) in the Bombali District.  (Photo: District Health Sister Bombali Sr. Annie Briggs welcoming ACC to the meeting with In-Charges) This was in the form of sensitization meeting held [...]

Over 60,000 people live with epilepsy in Sierra Leone

Says Professor Radcliffe Lisk Dr. Radcliffe Lisk, a Consultant Neurologist at Basildon and Thurrock NHS University Hospital, England has said during a training workshop in Kenema that a total of 60,000 people are living with epilepsy in Sierra Leone, which even exceeds the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country. Giving an overview of the disease, [...]

Eradication/Elimination of Malaria from Sierra Leone

Is this feasible?  YES.   Malaysia eradicated it successfully after Independence. How?  It cannot be done by Sierra Leoneans alone working exclusively within Sierra Leone because mosquitoes will fly in from Guinea and Liberia – particularly the deadliest Plasmodium Falciparum transmitted by the female Anopheles contributing to cerebral malaria, etc. Sierra Leone Government has a 2009 [...]

Kola Tree benefits from newly constructed hospital

The Kola Tree community at Calaba Town, east end of Freetown, with a population of about 20,000 residents has benefitted from a newly constructed hospital called Deen Medicines Hospital located at Deen Drive, Kola Tree, Freetown.  (Photo: Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie Doctor in charge and Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie Doctor in charge and Alusine Deen Gabisi Proprietor) [...]

Deputy Mayor Officially Launches Deen’s Health Care Hospital

In a bid to complement the effort of government to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and to contribute to Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’s dream of Agenda for Prosperity, the Deputy Mayor of The Freetown City Council, Councilor Mary Jaiah has officially launched the Deen’s Health Care Hospital at Kola Tree in Calaba Town in [...]

Kenema Government Hospital to Receive Uniform Supply From Government

Isatu Kamara, the matron of the Kenema Government Hospital, has disclosed to this press that each worker at the hospital will receive a brand new uniform from the government of Sierra Leone through the local councils in the district. She informed this press that from the core staff to the least laborer will be dressed [...]

BRAC ends sensitization on malaria

An international nongovernmental organization BRAC-SL and the Kenema District Health management team recently completed a sensitization program to educate the community on the causes and prevention of malaria on the theme  “Invest in the Future, Defeat Malaria” at the Kenema District Council Hall Speaking to this press the Regional Health Coordinator for BRAC-Eastern Region, Protiva [...]

HIMS to Rescue Disabled with Housing and Education

Disabled persons squatting at the House of Jesus for the Disabled, Wallace Johnson Street, Freetown will soon benefit hugely from a philanthropic organization known as Handsworth International Mission Services (HIMS) who since 2009 has been assisting stranded disabled persons at the House of Jesus settlement in diverse ways. Sharing their vision for the poor disabled, [...]

$5k Shortfall for Charity Transatlantic Row

An urgent push is underway to raise five-thousand dollars for The Spirit of Malabo, which will be the engine for a global HIV testing campaign.  (Photo: Photo Handout: The Spirit of Malabo photograph inside a MSC container.) Brooklyn, New York -The Spirit of Malabo, a 24’ ocean rowboat, arrives in Brooklyn, New York next week [...]

“Unusual Suspects” are transforming access to Reproductive Health Services

GLC Recognizes the Gambia, Kenya, Zambia and Sierra Leone with 2013 Resolve Award WASHINGTON, May 20 /CSRwire/ – There is a global consensus that family planning and reproductive health is a life-saving, cost effective intervention that jumpstarts development. Yet,222 million women worldwide still have an unmet need for family planning. Those who are working to meet that need—in [...]

JAFAI plans to empower women, children and physically challenged

JAFAI-Health and Support Services, a non-governmental philanthropic organization is seeking to empower women, children and persons with disability in Sierra Leone.  The organization recently visited five deprived communities, Susan Bay, Kroobay, Waterloo Refugee Camp, Pademba Road Disabled Center, and the Lightfoot Boston Street of Freetown, to find out about problems, and a way of means [...]

Kambai District Council clears the air

The rehabilitation of the Rokuprmagbema Chiefdom Health Centre and  the Magbemgbeh, Gbinleh Dixon Chiefdom in the Kambia district has finally been completed, according to an investigation conducted by various media houses and press concern for the People’s Advocacy Network Sierra Leone.  The investigation came amidst various allegations saying the project was a scam.   (Photo: Newly [...]

As the rainy season approaches – Madam Cholera threatens Sierra Leone again

The word ‘Cholera’ became a fearful household name in Sierra Leone when in 2012 the disease dealt a terrible blow on this nation with disastrous consequences. Apparently, the disease has become one of those human induced epidemics this country has come to cope with, albeit with at the cost of human lives. Indeed, more than [...]

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