Presentation

The Ministry of Energy with a Vision to build the capacity of the nation’s young Engineers has funded a comprehensive external training through SALINI for the country’s electro-mechanic engineers in Hydropower operations and maintenance.

Chairing the farewell meeting the Ministry organized for the 9 Hydropower Engineers on Monday 14th March 2016 at the Minister’s office in Freetown, Permanent secretary Zainab Buya-Kamara was quick to caution the trainees that the golden opportunity given to them must be judiciously utilized. She continued that the Engineers would have to write individual reports and certificates will be given based on merit. The blunt Permanent secretary even ended that a clause would be signed between the Ministry and the Engineers for the training and for them to come back and serve the nation for some time.

The epidemic of Ebola virus disease (Ebola) in West Africa began in Guinea in late 2013 (1), and on August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the epidemic a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (2). Guinea was declared Ebola-free on December 29, 2015, and is under a 90 day period of enhanced surveillance, following 3,351 confirmed and 453 probable cases of Ebola and 2,536 deaths (3). Passive surveillance for Ebola in Guinea has been conducted principally through the use of a telephone alert system.

Nothing is more important between a doctor and a patient than communication. The more you communicate, the healthier people get and the more knowledgeable doctors become. Without open lines of communication, important details can be missed, patients might put off appointments for too long and trust can’t be built.

Cloud-based patient relationship management (PRM) systems are one of the latest ways for offices and clinics to keep the lines of communication open. This new digital health technology is providing avenues for two-way communication that makes discussions between doctors and patients easier to initiate, monitor and document.

African Ambassadors’ Spouses Donate ¥150,000 to Sierra Leone Ebola Victims

John Baimba Sesay, Press Attaché, Sierra Leone Embassy-China

The Group of African Ambassadors Spouses (GAAS), in the People’s Republic of China, on Tuesday, 15th March, 2016, made a symbolic presentation of a cheque of 150,000 RMB (US$22,000) to Sierra Leone, through her Embassy in Beijing, as its support to the country’s Ebola victims.   Making the presentation to embassies of the three hardest hit Manor River Union (MRU) nations at the Ghanaian Embassy in Beijing, Madam Huseina Demuyakor, spouse of the Ghanaian Ambassador and Vice President of GAAS, said they had gone out of their mandate to raise funds in 2015 as a way of supporting victims of the dreadful disease in the affected nations.