With some 4,000 State Enrolled Community Health Nurses (SECHN) awaiting employment, government is being urged to step up monitoring of private nursing schools around the country.
Chairman of the Sierra Leone Health Service Commission (HSC) has urged government to institute an effective monitoring system to check nursing training schools in the country.
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Expectations from Ebola survivors about new and up to date health facilities that will be provided by government or help from other humanitarian organizations seems to be moving at a snail pace. In a community called Moe Wharf, one of which was devastatingly ravished by Ebola. Dilapidated housing conditions, little or no presence of health and sanitation leave survivors in hash conditions which could arouse flare ups at any time.

Children as well as adults live in these deplorable conditions even after discharge from health care centres. Such conditions attract disease that affects these survivors due to weak health immune system.

Availability of public health units and community health workers (CHW) is limited and therefore cannot attend to Ebola survivors and their challenges they face daily.

After attending school on Monday and Tuesday, the boy was admitted to a hospital and was transported to an Ebola treatment unit on Wednesday, the official said.

The boy’s test came back positive on Thursday, as did subsequent tests for his father and a sibling, the official said, adding that at least seven health care workers may have treated him without the protective equipment essential for Ebola cases.