Lewis Mundell from the University of Dundee in Scotland recently came to Magbenteh Community Hospital as a 5th year medical student to carry out a medical elective placement. Lewis shared his experience with us: “Having been to Sierra Leone in 2011 and 2012 and visiting Magbenteh Community Hospital before attending Medical School, the hospital was […]
In Sierra Leone, there is no village without a herbalist but there are villages without clinics. Traditional or ‘Country’ medicine is an alternative medical discipline, deep-seated in Sierra Leonean culture and one existed long before the establishment of science based medicine in West Africa. A combination of literacy rate; with only 58.7 per cent of […]
Karin Wernick from Germany returned to Sierra Leone and Magbenteh Community Hospital for her second visit, to support the needs of our physiotherapy department for 5 weeks. Treating both inpatients admitted in our Children’s Ward, Female Ward and Male Ward, as well as returning outpatients, Karin has worked miracles. One particular patient is 9 year […]
Bombali District is experiencing an increase in hernia medical condition. Caused by strain and muscle weakeness as result of hard work, it is most common in the rural communities where manual labour is custom to daily life. Access to quality health care services continues to be a challenge for many Sierra Leoneans. With Magbenteh Community […]
On Tuesday 31st October, the 223 children from the Action Swiss Sponsorship Programme received a bag of rice to take home. With the cost of food items constantly increasing due to the economic instability of the country, the rice will serve as a temporary supplement to relieve some financial pressure on the children’s families. The […]
On Thursday 28th September, our Head Children’s Nurse and Matron from Magbenteh Community Hospital attended a workshop at the Makeni Regional Hospital, led by CHAMPS; the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network. The aim of the workshop was to introduce a new 6-month pilot programme to health facilities across Bombali District, to establish the […]
Dr Sarah from Belgium came to Magbenteh Community Hospital in July 2017 to spend 2 months as a volunteer. Before leaving home, she carried out some fundraising activities in her local community to raise funds for the Swiss-Sierra Leone Development Foundation. Together with her Mother and Sister she raised several hundred euros in donations! During […]
Work didn’t stop for the monsoon rains of Sierra Leone during July August and September! Construction of the Magbenteh Community Boarding School accommodation continued with the building of pillars and beams to support the roof, although even this phase was disturbed by rain as you can see in the photos! Virginia, the SSLDF Building Engineer, […]
On the 10th September 2017, Community Health Officers (CHO’s) and Community Health Assistants (CHA’s) across Sierra Leone withdrew their services to the health system in response to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation’s refusal to sign the Community Health Practitioners Act 2017. This is the first strike by CHO’s to have arisen in Sierra Leone’s […]
Dr Sally Wright from the UK spent two months volunteering at Magbenteh Community Hospital having completed her Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene prior to working with Raleigh International as an Advanced Expedition Medic in Nepal. Dr Sally shared her time with us; “I arrived in Makeni as a medic for the Sierra Leone Marathon […]
