About 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.

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.

GOAL

To compliment Government’s efforts in reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality rates through Midwifery education in Bo District by 2020

VISION

A school of excellence, producing Competent and Committed Midwives dedicated to delivering safe services that are acceptable, affordable and accessible to women and their new borns in the rural communities in Sierra Leone.

MISSION

The School of Midwifery Bo strives to contribute to the reduction of maternal and newborn morbidity and morality by providing quality education to nurses who will provide safe, effective and respectful care to women, new borns and their families in Sierra Leone.

VALUES

Accountability, Stewardship and Integrity

OUR MOTTO:

COMPETENCY, QUALITY AND INTEGRITY

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES:

To increase the current number of midwives by 100 by 2020
To reduce maternal and new-born mortality and morbidity by 10% by 2020
To increase positive midwife attitudes, ethics and etiquette towards patients, and also increase positive community perceptions of midwives by 50% by 2020