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THE BEST SKILLED ATTENDANTS FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
The School of Midwifery Bo is located in Nyandehun about 8 kilometers from Bo along the Bo-Kenema highway. This new Midwifery School (third in the country) was funded by BMZ, the Quandt family and Action Medeor through Caritas Bo. Prior to its partial accreditation, the Nurses and Midwives Board of Sierra Leone did an assessment of the School on the 17th October and the school was inaugurated on the 21st October, 2017. At the moment, the school is offering a two-year curriculum midwifery training for SECHNs who have worked for at least three years.
News and Other Development Stories
Parents and guardians of the school going kids in the northern Headquarters City of Makeni have enthusiastically welcomed President Julius Maada Bio’s Free Quality Education initiative. A team from the ministry of Basic and Secondary School Education headed by the National Coordinator of the Free Quality Education Secretariat, Amara Sowa has successfully distributed thousands free ruled Exercise Books to thousands of school-going kids in Makeni, Northern Sierra Leone. The distribution exercises coincided with the reopening of all Government and Government Assisted Schools across the country yesterday. Mr. Amara Sowa told newsmen that his presence at one of the distribution centers was to ensure that the targeted beneficiaries get the exercise books. Read More..........
Brief on About Us
The health system in Sierra Leone is characterized by an acute lack of appropriately qualified healthcare workers in all sectors. The physician-patient ratio is reported to 1:20,000, with a mare 190 physicians serving 5.3 million people across the country, including five gynecologists. In 2014 the deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone brought an already weak health system to its knees: by January 2015 296 healthcare workers had been infected with Ebola, out of which 221 lost their lives, including eleven physicians. The high death rate debilitated the fragile health system still further and compounded the chronic shortage of health professionals. Read More.......
Brief on Midwifery School
Bo Town is the second largest city in Sierra Leone and is centrally located in Southern Province. Bo District has a population of around 570,000. According to the MoHS, health facilities in the district include one government and two mission hospitals, 27 Community Health Centres (CHC), 21 Community Health Posts (CHP), 62 Maternal and Child Health Posts (MCHP), and four private clinics. This means that a single health facility (MCHP, CHC, CHP, government hospital, mission hospital and private clinic) serves 5,462 people and has 1 bed for 2,061 inhabitants.
The midwifery school Bo is located at Nyandehun Village in the south of the country; it will train as many as 50 SECHN a year to be midwives. This initiative will help to increase the number of available and practicing midwives throughout Sierra Leone, and more particularly, in rural areas of Southern and Eastern Provinces.Read More.......