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 ...
pledged to donate four mobile health clinic buses to help enhance medical services in remote areas of Sierra Leone. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the buses arrived in the country in 2021. The mobile health clinic service that helped the young girl, was one of these...
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),...
Learning from four fragile and conflict-affected health systems in Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Cambodia. Health Policy Plan. 2017;32(suppl_3):iii3-iii13. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czx112. PMID: 29149313. ICRC, Protocol I. (51) Protection of the civilian population. In: ...
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...
Samuel Batty and Mohamed Kamara are community health officers in Sierra Leone and CapaCare trainees who came to Norway in early September for additional training. Both men said they were under pressure from their families to stop working in the health care system for fear that they, too, might...
“I tell you, it is this [Ebola] outbreak that will transform Sierra Leone’s health system to a robust and functional one,” said Dr. Dong Xiaoping, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control in Sierra Leone. Antonio Vigilante, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General ...
According toThe Legatum Prosperity Index 2023, the following countries have the worst healthcare in the world. This list begins with the country with the worst healthcare system: Central African Republic South Sudan Chad Lesotho Somalia Sierra Leone ...
The remaining studies were based in Sierra Leone (n = 1), Australia (n = 1), China (n = 1) and India (n = 1). Half the articles were published in 2018, the rest largely spread out over the other years. Please see Table 2 for an overview of the included ...
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