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Available healthcare and health status in Sierra Leone is rated very poorly. Globally, infant and maternal mortality rates remain among the highest. [1] The major causes of illness within the country are preventable with modern technology and medical advances.
In April 2010 Sierra Leone launched "Free Health Care Medical Insurance", a system of free healthcare for pregnant and breast-feeding women and children under five. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] A UN population Fund representative said that medical equipment had been ordered and some drugs distributed as part of the new healthcare scheme but the coverage was not ...
The water and sanitation systems were damaged after the civil war in Sierra Leone, and have not been rebuilt properly, leaving approximately 43% of Sierra Leoneans without access to clean water. [10] [11] Poor health-care system in the country with the population of six million people also contributes to the outbreak. The UN figures indicate ...
Joshua Abioseh Duncan, the head of the Mental Health Coalition of Sierra Leone, a group that advocates for mental health, said the long overdue review of the country’s 1902 Lunacy Act that ...
Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup exercises before starting their day at the Farming on Crutches initiative in Freetown, Sierra ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Sierra Leone on 31 March 2020.
The 2022 Sierra Leone doctors strike was a strike action by medical doctors in Sierra Leone against low pay and lack of benefits. [1] It began on 1 August and ended on 5 August when the government granted a pay rise and the issuance of weekly fuel allowances through a prepaid card. [ 2 ]
“This is an investment in the safety of our people and a healthier Sierra Leone,” Health Minister Dr. Austin Demby said. There had been no approved vaccine at the time of the 2014 outbreak that recorded up to 28,000 cases, starting in Guinea before spreading across land borders to Sierra Leone and Liberia , the other two countries affected ...