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The Ministry of Health and Sanitation is the health ministry of Sierra Leone. As of 2021 [update] , the Health Minister is Dr. Austin H. Demby. Their offices are located on the fourth floor of the Youyi Building, Brookfields , Freetown .
The community health centre carries out health prevention measures, cures and health promotion activities and is in charge of overseeing the other PHUs in the area. It is planned that each chiefdom, the unit of local government in Sierra Leone below the level of district, should have at least one community health centre. [2]
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security; Ministry of Defence and National Security (Sierra Leone) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Sierra Leone) Ministry of Information and Communication (Sierra Leone) Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment; Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources
The Sierra Leone government is divided into three branches: the executive, legislative and the judiciary. The seat of government of Sierra Leone is in the capital Freetown. The government of Sierra Leone takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sierra Leone is both head of state ...
The Ministry of Health established units for mental health in all 14 districts of the country almost a decade ago, but few function as intended due to a lack of trained staff and other resources.
Alhaji Dr. med. Sheik-Umarr Mikailu Jah (22 August 1935 - 2 August 2024), commonly known as Dr. S.U.M. Jah, was a Sierra Leonean public servant, trained as a surgeon in Germany and one of the few medical specialists working in Sierra Leone throughout the civil war, and later a statesman who served as a minister of Sierra Leone for 11 years, from 1996 to 2007.
Sierra Leone’s health ministry, the president’s office and the National Commission for Social Action office that manages the reparations program did not respond to questions.
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [2] finds that Sierra Leone is fulfilling 62.1% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to health based on its level of income. [3] When looking at the right to health with respect to children, Sierra Leone achieves 76.8% of what is expected based on its current income. [4]