The article describes the free services offered to children below five years and pregnant or breastfeeding women at Kroo Bay Health Centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Kroo Bay Health is one of the health centers supported by the government and the Save the Children organization, designed to ...
The mobile health clinics assistance project for Sierra Leone is a prime example of China's "small but beautiful" projects. It not only brings high-quality diagnostic and treatment services with high-tech support to remote residents in Sierra Leone, but also plays an active role in deepening Si...
The experience of Sierra Leone has not been documented so far. However, it represents a particularly useful and relevant case study because PBF was implemented at national scale (one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa) and also because of the “start-stop-start again” trajectory that...
One of the biggest challenges facing health care workers in Sierra Leone is providing emergency surgical care to pregnant women. CapaCare provides this training, but the training programmes -- and delivering care to pregnant women overall -- has been deeply affected by Ebola. Credit: CapaCare.org...
Eyong Ebai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 January 2022: Our purpose at GE Healthcare is to improve lives in moments that matter, and we do so by partnering to help deliver more sustainable and accessible precision healthcare. It has been a year to the day since I started...
Healthcare seeking for diarrhoea, malaria and pneumonia among children in four poor rural districts in Sierra Leone in the context of free health care: res... Background: To plan for a community case management (CCM) program after the implementation of the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI),...
In Sierra Leone, Health care delivery is mainly administered by government health facilities distributed all over the country. There are over a thousand of such health facilities of which 28 are referral hospitals with the remaining being Peripheral Health Units (PHUs). There are also privately own...
However, major gaps in surveillance exist in Sierra Leone. Although healthcare workers (HCWs) are at high risk for HBV infection, little is known about the prevalence and knowledge of hepatitis B among HCWs in Sierra Leone. A cross-sectional study of all HCWs at the No. 34 Military ...
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doi:10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.614G.O'MalleyV.NarayanG.GageG.John-StewartE.KonjohSDOSAnnals of Global Health