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The COVID-19 situation in Sierra Leone, and its impact on health care overall, is ever-evolving. We invite you to stay in the know by listening to these real-time updates, in which Jon Lascher, executive director of Partners In Health-Sierra Leone, speaks with staff about the latest news and efforts to combat COVID-19 and protect the health of Sierra Leone. ---------- Partners In Health (PIH) began working in Sierra Leone in 2014, during the height of history's worst Ebola outbreak. Througho ...
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Today Jon speaks with Ahmidu Barrie, PIH SL's Director of Operations for an update on Covid-19 in Kono District. Ahmidu is managing the emergency response for PIH in Kono District, while also making sure our ongoing operations are maintained. We hear from Ahmidu on what the increase in cases means for Kono District, and for PIH Sierra Leone.…
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The President of Sierra Leone and the Minister of Health and Sanitation visited the Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching hospital on June 4th. We will hear from the head of that hospital, Dr. Abdul Jalloh, and two PIH SL staff members who have been overseeing our partnership: Umaru Sheriff and Alpha Sesay. Before the interviews this week, I am includi…
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Dr. Marta Patiño, PIH Sierra Leone's Internal Medicine Physician, has been working at Koidu Government Hospital for two years and has been helping to prepare our clinical team for eventual Covid-19 cases over the last two months. Last week, the day we were preparing for, arrived. The first cases of Covid-19 arrived in Kono, and we hear from Dr. Pat…
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Today, Jon travels just outside Freetown to attend the opening ceremony for the 120 bed community care center that PIH's infrastructure team helped to retrofit over the last 2 weeks. The new repurposed facility will provide additional treatment beds for positive Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. Dr. Idris, from the natio…
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Today, Jon Lascher speaks with Vicky Reed, Director of Nursing, and Isata Dumbuya, Maternal and Child Health lead. Both Vicky and Isata are celebrating International Nurses Day today with their teams in Kono, and they share what inspired them to become nurses. As Isata says in the episode, "Nurses rock". Thank you to all of the incredible nurses ca…
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Today, Jon travels to the main COVID-19 hospital in Sierra Leone, the 34 Military Hospital, and checks in with Dr. Marta Lado, PIH-Sierra Leone's chief medical officer. Dr. Lado has been seeing COVID-19 patients since the outbreak reached Sierra Leone six weeks ago, and shares updates on how staff, stuff, space, and systems are coming together at t…
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Today, Jon speaks with Vamba Lolleh, the electronic health officer for PIH-Sierra Leone. He talks about deploying electronic medical record systems at Wellbody Clinic, Koidu Government Hospital, and for community health workers in Kono. He also updates us on what he and the team have been working on during the COVID-19 Outbreak.…
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Today, Jon speaks with Infrastructure Manager (and his roommate!) Douglas Miller, to learn more about a new COVID-19 community care center set to open next week in Freetown. The facility will serve asymptomatic and minor COVID-19 cases, in order to monitor and protect these patients' health, help curb community transmission, and save hospital beds …
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On today's special update, Jon checks in with members of the PIH-Sierra Leone team in Kono, Freetown, and Port Loko, to learn a little more about how different staff members celebrate independence day, and what the holiday means to them during the COVID-19 response. Jon speaks with: Isata Fefegula - Administrative Manager, Freetown Shadia Conteh - …
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Jon visits the final day of the training of trainers for Sierra leone's national contact tracing program. Jon is joined by epidemiologist Gbessay Saffa, the head of contact tracing for the Government of Sierra Leone, to learn a bit more about contact tracing, his experience, and the partnership between PIH and the Ministry of Health's contact traci…
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Today, Jon and repeat guest on the PIH-SL Audio Update, Dr. Bailor Barrie, talk about the upcoming trainings for Sierra Leone's national contact tracing program. PIH is leading the training with the surveillance pillar and the emergency operations center. #contacttracingtraining. Say that three times fast.…
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Today, Jon is joined by Dr. Joia Mukherjee, chief medical officer for Partners In Health, to discuss the Massachusetts contact tracing program, and how the Ebola response in Sierra Leone is helping to guide PIH's U.S.-based COVID-19 response. #tonkolilitotewksbury. First hashtag ever, and its a good one.…
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Today, Jon speaks with Dr. Chembe Kachimanga, a PIHer with more than eight years of experience working in Malawi and Sierra Leone. Almost two years ago, Chembe left Malawi to help build PIH-SL's medical education program, and now he also leads our non-communicable disease work, our monitoring and evaluation program, as well as supports our communit…
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Jon speaks with psychiatrist Mawuena Agbonyitor about PIH-SL's mental health program and how to stay healthy during lockdowns and social distancing. As an added bonus, Mawuena guides us through a breathing meditation to help ground us and reduce stress and anxiety.Par PIH Sierra Leone
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Today, Jon speaks with Isata Dumbuya, PIH-SL's reproductive, maternal, and child health program manager. She is responsible for leading PIH's maternal health programming at Koidu Government Hospital, Wellbody Clinic, and clinics around Kono District. Isata is also one of the chief planners and designers of the forthcoming Maternal Center of Excelle…
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