The Ministry of Health and Sanitation and Freetown City Council work together on the planning and delivery of this priority sector.
The key result areas are to:
Save the lives of 600 women and 5000 children by 2018
Prevent, detect, respond to epidemics and respond to epidemics and ensure zero cases of healthcare associated EVD
Dr Abubakarr Fofanah, Minister of Health and Sanitation:
"The gains we had made in improving health care for women and children through the Free Health Care Initiative were suddenly reversed in 2014 as Ebola struck the country. The tragic loss of healthcare workers’ lives during the crisis only made the situation worse.
"During the Early Recovery period, we restored basic services. Now we must work rapidly to create a health service that will stop pregnant women and children from dying needlessly and that will keep Sierra Leoneans safe and secure from disease outbreaks.
"Our plans aim to save the lives of 600 more women and 5,000 more children. We are focusing on access and services at the community level, rolling out an enhanced Community Health Worker (CHW) programme that will support pregnant women to access services and deliver essential drugs such as malaria treatment to children. This new programme will ensure that no Sierra Leonean will find themselves more than 5km from a health worker.
"By mid-2017, no health facilities should have stock outs of essential drugs. Twenty-nine facilities to care for pregnant women and newborn babies (25 ‘basic’ and 4 ‘comprehensive’ facilities) will be brought up to proper standards, including sanitation and hygiene facilities.
"Ebola cost the lives of almost 4,000 Sierra Leoneans. The health system we build now will not let that happen again. We will work to improve community sanitation, hygiene, and/or solid waste management in Freetown, Makeni and Kenema, 400 rural communities and four small towns. Health facilities will benefit from strengthened ‘water, sanitation, hygiene’ and ‘infection prevention and control’ procedures and we will continue to improve data collection and surveillance systems to ensure that new disease out-breaks are picked up and responded to quickly."
April 26, 2017
Door-to-door waste collection for every household in Freetown will play a major role in Operation Clean Freetown (OCF). Training of the youth group door-to-door waste collection businesses, who will handle this aspect of the process, continues this week with a course...
April 22, 2017
102 youth groups sign MOUs with FCC and Ward Councillors to operate new door-to-door waste collection service As part of a soon-to-be launched cleaning and rubbish collection service, representatives of 102 youth groups, who are being trained and supported to set up do...
April 20, 2017
Ebola don go, dorti sef fo go
Rubbish and waste in Freetown’s streets, waterways and gutters is polluting the environment and contaminating the city’s water, leading to an increase in diseases such as malaria, typhoid and diarrhoea.
Freetown City Council and Western Area...
April 8, 2017
Ebola don go, dorti sef fo go
Rubbish and waste in Freetown’s streets, waterways and gutters is polluting the city’s streets and contaminating its water, leading to the spread of diseases such as malaria, typhoid and diarrhoea.
Freetown City Council and WARDC are workin...
April 5, 2017
The rate and progress of the President’s Recovery Priorities has been impressive says UK Aid In a recent presentation of the President’s Recovery Priorities’ achievements to date, representatives of UK Aid - also known as the Department for International Development (D...
February 18, 2017
*Calling Youth Groups Interested in Running their own Business in Waste Management*
Young Sierra Leonean youth groups are being invited to set up cooperatives to apply to operate commercial waste management services in the community where they live.
Successful community...
February 13, 2017
Youth group business opportunity in Freetown
Entrepreneurial Sierra Leonean youth groups needed
Freetown Nominees Ltd is calling for applications from entrepreneurial, civic-minded youth groups in Freetown and Western Area Rural District Council who are interested in bei...