Sierra Leone, is a country located at Western Africa, it has an area of 72,300 Km2 and it may be considered quite a small country. Sierra Leone, with a population of 8,480,000 people, it is one of the least populous country in the world and has a populat
Maternal death rate in Sierra Leone is a human rights emergency
Sierra Leone has one of the world’s highest maternal death ratios in the context of a weak health system. The objectives of this study were to determine; the level of utilization of Antenatal Care (ANC), Skilled Delivery Attendants (SDA), Postnatal Care (PNC) services, and factors that ...
494, with a national abortion rate of 44.2 per 1000 women of reproductive age.Kenneth Jumamade this statement at the launch of the Study on Abortion Incidents and Severity of Related Complications in Sierra Leone which was held on Thursday, October 27th in collaboration...
The United Nations estimates that Sierra Leone has the highest death rate in the world, and the second highest infant morality rate (195 out of every 1,000 infants die within a year of birth). Life expectancy at birth in 1995 was only 34.1 years, down significantly from previously improving...
The same methods suggest that the crude death rate for Sierra Leone in 1974 was between 27 and 31 per 1000. Regional variations in infant mortality were marked. Greater Freetown has the highest life expectancy for both sexes. 34% of total deaths occurs to children under 1 year and 51% to...
In Sierra Leone the number of cases continues to increase in some areas.“We’re still seeing this thing___in parts of Sierra Leone,”Dr Aylward said Tracing the progress of individual patients, the WHO estimates an overall death rate of 70 percent, though people who receive treatment in a...
The doctor leading Sierra Leone’s fight against the worst Ebola outbreak on record has died from the virus, the country’s chief medical officer said. The death of Sheik Umar Khan, who was credited with treating more than 100 patients, follows the deaths of dozens of local he...
All clinical notes were electronically scanned on patient discharge or death, prior to destruction of the paper copies used in the EVDTU clinical area. All clinical samples and data were collected during routine patient care as part of the public health response and the Sierra Leone ethics and ...