The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2014 Report from Freetown says that Dr. Olivette Buck, who works at the Lumley Hospital in the western area of the capital Freetown, has contracted the deadly Ebola virus. Dr Buck is said to be very sick, but currently stable, though doctors are anxious [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2014 As Sierra Leone prepares for a complete closing down of business for three days – starting Friday, 19th September, the international community is now stepping up support for the health agencies and the ministry of health in tackling the Ebola virus. Latest official [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2014 Weeks ago, I told few of my APC friends that the fight against Ebola was not about cynicism. Rather, it should be a collective, genuine effort in tackling a virus which has caused so much pain to citizens, who were [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2014 Sierra Leone’s Ebola Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), headed by the newly appointed co-ordinator – Steven Gaojia – held a press conference Tuesday in the capital Freetown, spelling out the reasons for the proposed three day lockdown; what the government expects to achieve; how [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2014 It is almost six months since the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, when it all seemed then, as though the world’s attention would never evaporate, and the UN Chief – Ban Ki Moon expressing horror at the unfolding [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2014 As the race against time in the fight against the Ebola virus in West Africa intensifies, support for the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea keeps pouring in, with the death toll in the region now exceeding 2,000. The UN is calling [Read More]
Michael Fayia Kallon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2014 I don’t know what anyone calls an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), since there is no state governance that would provide a timely and effective response to meet the needs in cases of disaster. We are so lucky so far, because [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2014 The people of Sierra Leone are bracing themselves for the most stringent action yet to be taken by the government, in the battle against Ebola. President Koroma has ordered a complete lockdown of the country for a period of three days. This decision [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2014 After Wednesday’s publication of a media frenzied statement released by State House in Freetown, which is described by the government as a “bonanza for health and non-health personnel”, questions are being asked as to why it has taken four months for the government [Read More]
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