An eight-man team of Spanish Medical Doctors from a medical organisation known as Surgeons in Action Foundation based in Spain are in Sierra Leone for a week-long free surgeries at the Police Hospital, at Kingtom. On Monday September 25, 2023, the team met with the Inspector General of the Sierra Leone Police (IGP) – Mr. William Fayia Sellu at his …

His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio met and held a fruitful discussion with the Director-General of the World Health Organization Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday 24th July 2023 at the ongoing UN Food Systems Summit +2 in Rome, Italy at the premises of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted by Italy, in collaboration with …

𝐁𝐲 𝐀𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 Sierra Leone’s evolving illicit-drug consumption, and its attendant substance-use disorders and unreported drug-overdose deaths, is unmistakable and depressing. Many youths on street corners; learners and instructors in secondary schools, colleges, and universities; bankers, lawyers, and medical workers; drivers of keke and okada; and public officials, including police officers, soldiers, civil servants, and elective office holders, you …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has turned the sod for the construction of the Mattru Jong-Senehun bridge, which links locals in Jong with neighbouring chiefdoms in the Bonthe district. Once completed, the bridge, replacing a 64-year-old ferry-crossing point, will be 50-kilometre east and 80-kilometre west, located 52 miles southwest of Bo district. It will also link business and …

During his recent visit to Brussels, Belgium, President Dr Julius Maada Bio visited the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) office in Belgium, where he engaged with the President and Directors of MSF Belgium and thanked them for their continued services to Sierra Leone. President Bio thanked the organization for its over 36 years of distinguished service in Sierra Leone. The President …

The First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Dr. Fatima Maada Bio has briefed a high-powered delegation from the Susan Thompson Buffet Foundation and Equity Bank in Kenya in respect to her contribution in the country’s health sector in line with the agenda of His Excellency the President. Prominent among the numerous interventions highlighted by the First Lady as …

As part of broader cancer control efforts, including the development of its National Cancer Control Plan (NCCP), the Government of Sierra Leone is planning the establishment of the country’s first cancer treatment hospital – a radiotherapy facility. To support the country’s efforts, and help tackle low cancer survival rates, more than 40 government and civil society stakeholders convened for a …

By: Juliana Vandy Strategic Communications Unit – MIC.                                                                                                         …

By Mohamed Fofanah. The National Aids Secretariat (NAS) yesterday observed the HIV/AIDS Zero Discrimination Day as part of a global movement of solidarity to end all forms of discrimination. On Zero Discrimination Day this year under the theme “Remove laws that harm, create laws that empower,” UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to take action against discriminatory laws, and celebrate …

By Mohamed Fofanah.                                                                                          Diamond magnate, Hisham Mackie has opened a hospital in Tankoro Chiefdom in Koidu …