In an effort to seek and promote the welfare of citizens, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Tuesday May 17 2016 summoned the appropriate authorities at State House to update him on the current water situation in Freetown, and also later received an Administrative Inquiry Report on allegations of misconduct in the management of the GAVI Alliance Funds Part 1.
Results just coming in show that health partners have recahed some 883,084 children between six months and below 15 years of age with measles vaccine, in Sierra Leone's Western Area. That accounts for over 96% of those targeted for that area.
The leaders of Sierra Leone and Liberia on Friday 6 May, 2016, called for more collaboration to end Ebola in their respective countries.
The call came following a joint communique signed by both President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma and his Liberian counterpart, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who was on a one-day working and friendly visit to Sierra Leone.
The two heads of state, according to the communique, agreed on not only ending the Ebola epidemic in their respective countries, but also exchanged views on political, security, health, socio-economic cooperation as well as progress and challenges with national dimensions of the implementation of the post-Ebola recovery programmes.
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in collaboration with the Scaling up Nutrition and Immunization Civil Society Platform (SUNI-CSP), chaired by FOCUS 1000 and Co-chaired by Helen Keller International will organise the first National Health and Nutrition Fair on the theme ‘Gud it en welbↄdi pas gentri.’ Meaning, health is wealth. The fair will starts from the 29th of April to the 1st of May, 2016 at the Maitta Conference Center.
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