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.

Ministry of Health and Sanitation has on Wednesday 23rd March, 2016 commemorated World Tuberculosis day on the theme “Unite to End TB”.

The Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Abubakar Fofanah said, TB is the world’s leading infectious killer, causing more than 4,000 deaths every day. He said the burden of the disease is serious enough to possess a significant threat to the social and economic development of any country, unless effective concerted measures are taken to combat the disease.

Dr. Fofanah said that, the bright side of all is that tuberculosis is both preventable and curable, adding that last year in Sierra Leone 12,103 cases of Tuberculosis were reported and put on treatment from 170 service delivery points with a cure rate of 88.1%.

Life is returning to normal in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, after the worst Ebola outbreak in history took 11,000 lives. International medical teams have packed up their bags and left. The world has shaken off its Ebola jitters, but now scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and colleagues from China and Sierra Leone are conducting a kind of extended postmortem, trying to figure out what happened.

In her forties, Maimaïssatou Toure is a mother of six and an Ebola survivor from Forécariah Prefecture, Guinea. Known for her dynamism and courage, this woman devoted one year of her life to caring for children whose parents were infected by Ebola and admitted to the treatment centre in Forécariah.

Her story resembles that of many others who have been infected by the Ebola virus disease after contact with a close relative. Unlike some of her family members who were infected but did not survive, including her son, Maimaïssatou Toure beat Ebola after receiving care at the Conakry Donka-based Ebola treatment centre.

“After two weeks of treatment, I tested negative for Ebola and was authorized to go back home to my children and husband. As I expected, people in my neighbourhood avoided any contact with me. They were curious but no one dared coming close to me. What I went through opened my mind and I understood that Ebola patients need support.’’