Health - Sierra Leone

Freetown, Sierra Leone: In a collaborative effort between the Government of Sierra Leone and its development partners to improve the access to and availability of high-quality health services in the country, the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), Action Contre la Faim, and Save the Children will officially launch the Advancing Partners & Communities project: “Strengthening Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health (RMNCH) Services as part of the Post-Ebola Health Sector Recovery in Western Area” on Wednesday, March 9th, 2016 at the Sierra Leone Bank Complex. The project is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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.