President Koroma
Sierra Leone has cancelled all celebrations marking Christmas 2014 and New Year 2015.
World Vision, Red Cross take over Kono Ebola
Erik Lundblad, IFRC Team Leader
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Action-aid targets 7,000 children in Sierra Leone
Action-aid Executive Director presenting learning material in Njaiama Nimikoro Chiefdom in Kono
By Mustapha Sesay
Sierra Leone airport is “Ebola-free”
By Bampia James Bundu
General Manager at the Sierra Leone Airports Authority has assured the public that to date, there has not been a single Ebola case detected at the country’s main and only operational airport in Lungi.
John Sesay told journalists at the airport that since the outbreak a lot of measures had been put in place, and assured that they would ensure the “airport does not export the Ebola virus disease to any other country in the world”.
St. Joseph tops Peagie Woobay Awards
By Bampia James Bundu
Mariama Kati Bangura, a pupil of St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Freetown, has won a brand new iPad after coming tops in the “Christmas Brain of Peagie Woobay Essay competition’ held recently in the country.
iPas concerned over health system for women
By Zainab Joaque
Ipas, a reproductive health organisation has raised concerns over the health system for women and girls since the outbreak of Ebola in the country.
According to statistics from 13 facilities supported by Ipas, in the first quarter of 2014, 271 women sought post-abortion care, in the second quarter 276 did, while in the third the number dropped to 79 from the same facilities.
More medical supplies for Western Area
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
A Sierra Leonean owned charity has donated assorted medical supplies worth $ 500, 000 to the district health management teams of Western Area rural and urban, in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak.
Presenting the items, which included incubators and personal protective equipment, Mohamed Sangarie of Mohamed and Chris Development Company Ltd., said the donation was intended to “halt the spread of the Ebola virus in the country, particularly the Western Area.”
