Education and Health

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2018: I couldn’t help but be impressed by schoolchildren in my village on the day school reopened. Many of them had woken up early, dressed and were eagerly trooping happily to school. These included those who, because of fees had kept away from [Read More]

Kona Seibure: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2018: Today is World Mental Health Day, focussing the world’s attention on ‘young people and mental health in a changing world’. And for many young people, growing up in Sierra Leone today means you will either be in an ongoing battle with poverty [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2018: The BBC News Africa TV Service has launched a new series called Talk it Out, where real-life health case-studies are examined and health issues that are taboo or are socially stigmatised are openly and honestly discussed. The new BBC News Africa TV series – [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr. Alpha T. Wurie, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Varian Medical Systems in the USA to establish Sierra Leone’s first radiotherapy centre for cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed last week [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2018: Only 16 out of 48 African countries and islands have access to hospital services within the WHO’s two-hour time threshold. Writing in theconversation.com, Paul Ouma and Emelda Okiro explain: Nearly half of all deaths and about a third of disabilities in low and middle-income [Read More]

Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2018: Since February 2018 several permanent cardiac pacemaker operations have been successfully performed at the Choithram Memorial Hospital, Hill Station, Freetown, led by Sierra Leonean Cardiologist Dr. James Russell and his team. This approach of implanting transvenous cardiac pacemakers has [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2018: Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation met Macky Sall – President of Senegal on 30th August 2018 to discuss Merck Foundation’s strong and long-term commitment to build healthcare capacity in Senegal. Merck Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany. “I am [Read More]

Mousa E. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2018: As the Free and Quality Education programme starts on September 17th, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Basic and Senior Education, Brima Michael Turay has revealed that the Ministry of Finance has allocated forty three billion Leones as school [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2018: Varian has signed a partnership agreement with Mediheal Group of Hospitals to expand access to radiotherapy in Kenya. This comprehensive partnership agreement includes the supply of advanced linear accelerators to five new radiotherapy centers across Kenya, as well as service, training and research collaboration [Read More]