By: Sylvester Alhaji Massaquoi
Health Alert Sierra Leone, a local Civil Society Organization has ended a day’s engagement with stakeholders in Pujehun District on emergency response and health preparedness on COVID-19 and other epidemics.
The meeting according to the Project Manager of Health Alert Sierra Leone, David Alieu, was in line with the Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal Child Health and Nutrition Networks and targeted key stakeholders in the various sectors.
He said that the overall goal of Health Alert Sierra Leone was to make health facilities accessible to adolescents and women, in ensuring, they deliver quality care. He said they are also working to increase the uptake of family planning commodities and also for sexual reproductive health and right programming.
Alieu affirmed his organization's commitment to providing quality training to healthcare providers in disease preparedness in case of an outbreak.
Deputy Chairperson of Pujehun District Council, Tiangay Palmer thanked Health Alert for the timely and important engagement. She expressed the council’s commitment to providing better service delivery to its citizens and called on other civil society organizations to conduct similar engagements so that citizens will be ready in case there is any disease outbreak in the country.
Speaking during the programme, Musa Sesay from the Social Mobilization Pillar at the District Health Management Team first congratulated Health Alert for their knowledge in terms of readiness to fight outbreaks of diseases.
Mamawa Kaikai, District Mammy Queen also thanked Health Alert Sierra Leone for educating citizens on COVID-19 response and other emergencies and called on other NGOs to continue similar engagements, saying, at the end of the day, no one will be left behind in the sustainable development goals.
The meeting which was held at the District Health Management Team (DHMT) hall in Pujehun was attended by the District Medical Officer and other health officers, Chief Administrator's Representative, Journalists, women groups, youths , market women, school pupils and teachers.
Health Alert Sierra Leone was established in 2009 and specializes on health advocacy and accountability programming and is funded by the African Health Budget Network.
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