Bo, 13 February 2023 – The World Well being Group Nation Workplace in Sierra Leone has swiftly responded to a name by the Ministry of Well being and Sanitation to replenish medical provides on the Bo Authorities Regional Hospital following an emergency response by the hospital staff to a mass casualty incident that depleted the routine stockpile of medical provides of the hospital. The incident, concerned over 400 faculty kids largely women who had been injured when a railing collapsed on the Bo Mini Stadium the place hundreds of them had gathered to witness an occasion at no cost sanitary pad distribution for varsity women.
In keeping with Dr Harmless Nuwagira, WHO Consultant in Sierra Leone, the consignment with a price of roughly US$ 50 000 together with medicines and different medical consumables “is to facilitate uninterrupted routine service supply on the hospital within the rapid aftermath of the two February 2023 incident”.
“The extent of capability demonstrated by the Bo well being staff to effectively handle the medical emergency of such many injured kids from the accident is reassuring. It clearly demonstrated improved capability and a resilient well being system. WHO will proceed to help the federal government of Sierra Leone to make sure now we have the identical stage of proficiency in each main hospital, to promptly handle emergencies every time they happen”, Dr Nuwagira added.
The consignment was delivered to the Minister of Well being and Sanitation on the hospital with the participation of the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, the district well being administration and hospital administration and employees, conventional leaders, and the civil society. All the important thing audio system on the occasion expressed their appreciation to WHO for its well timed response and steady help in strengthening well being service supply within the nation.
“Firstly, we are saying thanks to our competent well being staff for proving that our system can work nicely throughout regular instances and likewise features successfully throughout shocks just like the one now we have simply witnessed. We additionally say thanks to WHO for at all times been a dependable associate in supporting the work of the Ministry of Well being and Sanitation”, says Dr Austin Demby, Minister of Well being and Sanitation. He likened the donation by WHO to a “reward to the hospital employees for his or her good work”.
WHO is enjoying vital position in Sierra Leone’s well being sector and is working intently with the Ministry of Well being and Sanitation and different well being growth companions in strengthening the nation’s capability for improved high quality of routine healthcare service supply in addition to improved capability to robustly reply to vital public well being occasions and emergencies by proving trainings, coordinating well being sector companions and mobilizing required assets.