Meet Aminatu Bah, she is a nurse at Magbenteh Community Hospitals under-fives clinics. She joined the hospital staff in 2009 as a nursing aid for three years, and received her official nursing certificate with the help of the organization shortly after. Aminatu expressed her concern for the patient’s overall health, and explained that the under-fives […]
The first World Health Day was celebrated April 7th 1948 by the World Health Organization. Their aim was to create awareness about universal health coverage and achieving maximum access to health care in every community. Traditional medicine is preferred by Sierra Leonians due mostly in part of their poor living situations, and lack of employment. […]
Implementing sports at Magbenteh Community Boarding School is vital to SSLDF. Understanding the importance of Physical Education as well as staying active is taught to student through assuring they have 1 hour recess and lunch period during school. The enrolled students are extremely vulnerable and therefore sport enables them to express themselves and empowers them […]
Virginia Canales first arrived at Magbenteh Community Hospital from Spain April 2016, and for six months she was tasked with the duty of building a school which would host 240 students from the most deprived areas of Makeni, Sierra Leone, and who had suffered terrible loses during the Ebola outbreak. After having completed the school, […]
Swiss-Sierra Leone Development Foundation started the X-Ray Machine fundraising initiative because Magbenteh Community Hospital is currently functioning without one. CHO’s and Doctors must send patients hours outside of Makeni for a simple X-Ray scan. This is very costly for patients as most of them are farmers or without work, so they have little to no […]
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs, it is caused by a variety of organisms, including bacteria, viruses and fungi. Although it ranges in seriousness from mild to severe, it is most serious for infants and young children. The air sacs can fill with fluid or purulent material […]
Magbenteh Community Hospital prides itself on the outstanding service we provide to our patients as well as the friendly and peaceful environment that can be felt throughout Makeni. This month we would like to commend our staff for going the extra mile, in honing and sharping their skills making our hospital celebrated and renowned in […]
Meet Halimatuh Bah, she is from Ivory Coast/Guinea and joined the SSLDF team in 2016 as part of the capacity building program. She first came to Sierra Leone working for a mining company in Freetown doing similar work. After hearing about the work SSLDF performs for the Magbenteh Community she was inspired to join the […]
Continuing on from the October blog about our 8 below knee amputees, we have recently started the measurement and casting for a group of 8 above knee amputees. SSLDF are extremely fortunate to have established this project with Arms Around Sierra Leone, an American organisation over the past 6 years. Our above amputees have their […]
Meet Dr Marah, our Emergency Surgical Officer at Magbenteh Community Hospital. He joined the SSLDF family in June 2011 as a Clinical Consultant but as his need for helping others and passion for knowledge grew, he left Magbenteh Hospital in March 2012 to acquire surgical training, returning once more in April 2013. “Surgeries have really […]
