OB Sisay describes the function of the national response centre, analyses external interventions and considers what the country learned from the crisis.
Jamie Hitchen looks ahead to when Sierra Leone is declared Ebola free and asks how the country can build an adequate health care system that offers sufficient support and protection to patients and staff.
11 of Sierra Leone’s 123 medical doctors have perished fighting Ebola. Jamie Hitchen sheds light on the burden that has fallen on local health care staff and questions whether they have received enough support and recognition.
As schools closed because of Ebola get set to re-open in Sierra Leone, Jamie Hitchen looks at one group that won’t be returning to the classroom – pregnant teenagers – and the possible long-term implications.
Jamie Hitchen highlights findings from a damning report by Sierra Leone’s Auditor-General into government spending of funds allocated to fight Ebola between May and October 2014.
Jamie Hitchen questions whether Sierra Leone’s government has sufficiently bridged the gap between promises and reality in fighting the Ebola virus and asks what might be the long term consequences.
Jamie Hitchen looks at the growing stigma facing Ebola survivors and how the virus has divided families and communities, creating rifts within the country that will take time to heal.
Inflated food prices without reciprocal wage increases, and possible job losses as a result of Ebola, are increasing the strain on many Sierra Leoneans. Jamie Hitchen investigates.
Jamie Hitchen asks how it will be possible to provide basic health care services during the Ebola outbreak with diminished human resources and growing distrust between citizens and the government.
Whilst Governor Rauf Aregbesola appears more focused on erecting “legacy” structures, public workers are not paid their salaries and retired public servants are not getting their pensions.
