Recovery

Jolak’s Manufacturing Company a joint venture has invested US$1.2m in the processing of vegetable oil ‘MAMA PADI’ and production of laundry soap at Wellington Industrial Estate in Freetown. The General Manager of the company Mukish Patel disclosed this during a public disclosure session of the company’s Environmental Social Health Impact Assessment at Mas Complex Calaba Town.

The company is constructing and installing equipment in its facility in Wellington, the General Manager said.  Expatriates and construction engineers doing the work are engaged in knowledge transfer to local staff in accordance with the local content policy Mr. Mukish Patel emphasized.

Palm oil and soap will be the main products of Jolak and the company will ensure they are of high quality, he said. Jobs will also be provided; he assured the youths in the community.

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Helle Thorning- Schmidt former Denmark Prime Minister now Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Save the Children during his two days visit in the country has said that one of the messages for the government is not to forget the girls that suffered through ebola.

Addressing journalists on Thursday at the Save the Children’s office, about the visit they had with the president and other donor partners the CEO disclosed that they had three issues, which they came with and discussed. “Our main messages are that firstly, we are in line with the governments in their ebola recovery plan as it is good to set this kind of plan for the country.  We also asked that the girls that suffered through ebola should not be forgotten and the group of children we are thinking of are those pregnant girls”.

By AFP 12 May 2016

Violently coughing up blood, the woman was close to collapse when brought to Kailahun hospital in eastern Sierra Leone from her village close to the Guinean border.

For nursing staff, the spectre of the killer Ebola virus had returned.

"My staff went into PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)," said Samuel Massaquoi, medical superintendent of the hospital. "People said that if she came from near Guinea she had Ebola."