Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2018: Gaining university entrance in Sierra Leone is a very costly business for thousands of students and parents across the country, the majority of whom – over 80%, are either unemployed or living well below the poverty line. When the cost of tuition fees is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2018: The Global Fund partnership is putting a sharper focus on challenging operating environments such as Sierra Leone, to improve the effectiveness of health investments and reach key populations. During the peak of the Ebola outbreak, the Global Fund mobilized an emergency fund to support [Read More]
Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2018: Traditionally, paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone play an important role in maintaining law and order at chiefdom level. But they need to go beyond that now, to ensure the efficient delivery of basic services such as health and sanitation, [Read More]
Ahmed Sahid Nasralla (De Monk): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2018: Twenty-eight-year-old Nancy Amara arrived at the newly constructed Community Health Post (CHP) in Dodo Kortuma, Luawa Chiefdom, Kailahun District by 7am in great pain. Exactly one hour thirty minutes later, she delivered her third girl child with relative ease. [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2018: Tramadol is an opiate analgesic prescribed for the treatment of moderate to moderately severe pain. It works by changing the way your brain and nervous system respond to pain. There is an erroneous notion that being a milder form of opiate, the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2018: In the closing hours of his ten years in power, president Koroma made a lot of noise about a Universal National Health Insurance Scheme he said he had introduced in Sierra Leone. But sadly no one has seen any evidence of the implementation of [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2018: So much has happened in the political landscape over the last week, with political party apparatchiks trading accusations, that one ought to take a cooler and accentuate the positive. The idea for this piece came to me after I preached a sermon [Read More]
Dr. Fawzia Thomas: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18th June 2018: It is quite worrying that an outbreak of measles virus was confirmed in the Koinadugu District of Sierra Leone four days ago. The press release from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation says that in June 2018, there were 19 confirmed cases [Read More]
Anthony Abdul Karim Kamara, Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2018: President Julius Maada Bio pledged on 10 May 2018, in his inaugural address to the House of Parliament that “effective next academic year starting September 2018, my Government will introduce Free Education from primary level to senior secondary school [Read More]
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