Health - Sierra Leone

Dr. Christian Bell is a household name in the medical sector in Sierra Leone as a renowned gynaecologist with over 40years of dedicated and diligent services to the people by contributing immensely to the country’s human development through medicine.

Quite recently Dr. Bell announced his retirement from active medical practice, handing over his baton to his daughter. But notwithstanding his retirement, Dr. Bell is now actively engaged in providing humanitarian services to the people through his organization ‘Love-One-Another Campaign” with support from his wife Reverend Valerie Bell and friends from Germany.

To further improve on health care service delivery in the country, the Japanese International Coordinating Agency (JICA) completed the construction of an administrative and storage facility at the Cline Town health facility.

At a short but impressive handing over ceremony of the two structures, the Chairman for the Committee on Health at the Freetown City Council (FCC), Councillor Mohamed Turay commended JICA for coming to the aid of the Western Area District Health Management Team (DHMT) to provide staff with a proper storage facility and an administrative block which will allow health personnel do their work in a more conducive environment.

Resilience is one of those buzzwords that every so often captures the hearts and minds of development practitioners. The importance of this particular term, though, becomes all too clear as the world faces an increasing number of humanitarian crises, including outbreaks that can turn into pandemics.

An Ebola clinical vaccine trial will be launched this July by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the Standard Digital of Kenya reports.

According to Senior Deputy Director of the KEMRI Walter Reed project, Dr Fredric Sawe, the effort by KEMRI is meant to restore the West African region which was worst hit by the deadly Ebola virus.