IRC ends stakeholders meeting in Kenema

A Non-Governmental Organization, International Rescue Committee (IRC) has ended a day long stakeholders meeting on Community Monitoring with Scorecards and Non-Financial Awards (NFA) at the new District Council Hall, Nyandeyama Road, Kenema. Welcoming the participants, the chairman of the Kenema District Council who doubles as chairman of occasion, Mr. Patrick Samu, said that this has [...]

More families owning and using mosquito nets in Sierra Leone

As many as one in two children under the age of five admitted into children’s wards in Sierra Leone have been there as a result of severe malaria. But Sierra Leone has been fighting back against this preventable and treatable disease that both affects individual families and costs Africa billions of dollars every year. As [...]

“Sierra Leone Govt. hospitals to offer free Malaria diagnosis, treatment & drugs” Health Minister Bangura

The President Ernest Bai Koroma led Government is currently seeking support to capacitate its 1,199 hospital facilities throughout Sierra Leone, to enable it provide free Malaria diagnosis and non – complicated malaria treatment, coupled with free drugs, said Minister of Health and Sanitation, Hon. Haja Zainab  Hawa Bangura.  Adding, “The pilot program will start May [...]

World Vision donates two million tablets to Health Ministry

World Vision Sierra Leone a child focused non-governmental organization through its Gift in Kind Program has donated two million tablets of  Albendazole to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to be administered during deworming exercise for children in all hospitals and clinics across the country at the Government’s Medical Stores New England Ville in Freetown.  [...]

Helping the ‘collateral victims’ of AIDS

Sitting on an old mattress in front of a small house in Kimukunda village in the Rakai District of southern Uganda, Teddy Nakawoeisi, 60, is waiting for her grandchildren to bring home something for supper. Between the ages of 4 and 8 years, they are at a nearby farm — working as daily labourers. The [...]

Good religion and good governance – Tony Blair and Sheik Abu Bakarr Conteh on World Malaria Day

The significance of World Malaria Day on 25th April is likely to be different if you live in London or Freetown. For those who live in Sierra Leone, it will be a reminder again that malaria is the number one killer of young children.  (Photo: Sheik Abu Bakarr Kamara) In the UK there may not [...]

Six drug peddlers face court action

Unisa Bangura and five others are to face court action today, Thursday April 19th.  According to sources at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), the accused persons were charged with six count charges of contravening Section 17 of the Pharmacy and Drugs Act of 2001, which prohibits illegal possession of pharmaceutical products without licenses, contrary to [...]

Diaspora friends of Isata Kabia donate medications to Magbele Health Center

After several tours around Port Loko East Constituency where she is aspiring to contest in the coming Parliamentary elections in November this year, if she gets the APC party symbol, Ms Isata Kabia, an indigene of Marampa Masimera Chiefdom, born to the Kabia Ruling Clan in Lunsar town, now understands the problems of her people [...]

War Victim Funds in big mess

The War Victims’ Funds, which President Koroma launched in October of 2009 to restore war victims’ health and dignity is currently embroiled in a mess, Sierra Express Media is made to understand.  (Photo: suffering war victim, Salman Jalloh) The War Victims’ Funds were recommended in Section 7 (6) of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) [...]

Ecobank Refurbishes Pediatric Ward at Connaught Hospital

Pan African Bank, Ecobank, has handed over to the government of Sierra Leone and the management of the Connaught Hospital keys to the newly refurbished Pediatric Ward of the hospital as part of their corporate social responsibility on Tuesday April 10th. Speaking at the handing over ceremony, the Managing Director of Ecobank, Clement Dodoo described [...]

Disable International say they have a solution to Sierra Leone’s disability issues

The Disable International Foundation Sierra Leone (DIF-SL) organisation was registered in 2008 to ensure that the disabled of all categories are catered for by providing them shelters, skill training and learning facilities, micro finance, start up kits and educational support for disable children. DIF-SIL have hit the ground running by visiting disabled persons at Pademba [...]

Suffering in silence

At the age of 16, Isatu Kamara’s (name changed) parents withdrew her from school to be initiated into the traditional Bondo secret society.  After going through the passing rites, her parents offered her for marriage to a polygamous rich man, hoping that he would transform their lives.  (Photo: A Fistula survivor who is now cured) [...]

The Bionic Man, Pushing the Limits!

Sierra Leone’s poet extraordinaire, Jusu Jaka Yawmah, aka Jay Jay, was so caught up in awe upon reading about the technological advancement of biomechatronics at the MIT Media Lab and also finding at the peak of it was fellow Sierra Leonean classmate of Prince of Wales School, Kingtom (1996-2003) David Sengeh, that he felt compelled [...]

Woman Tok with Princetta Williams

Fistula – The Vagina Vaseco Fistula (VVF) is a disease generally affecting women and a large number of its victims are from sub-Sahara Africa that is more cultured with unsafe initiation practices.  (Photo: Princetta Williams, author) What is Fistula? According to a Medical practitioner, Dr. Alyona Lewis who happens to be an obstetric fistula surgeon, [...]

Typhoid-Malaria: the evidence

The incidence of the compound diagnosis Typhoid-Malaria has recently become a worrying issue for public health practitioners in Sierra Leone. The diagnosis of typhoid-malaria is done at all levels of the healthcare delivery points including private practitioners and drug peddlers/quacks. Several people self medicate with malaria and typhoid fever drugs when experiencing fever; as they [...]

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