Feature

By Ibrahim S. Mansaray

Every year, countless bodies are taken to the grave due to medical failures. Failures which can be avoided if only medical authorities and citizens alike can investigate the sources of these problems and try to resolve them once and for all.

Wrong Diagnoses, wrong treatments, wrong administration of drugs, wrong operational and theatre procedures among others are the primary reasons for these countless avoidable deaths.

By Dr Modupe Taylor- Pearce

On 28 June 2020, a man called Lazarus came back from the dead.

By Kemo Cham

On one Friday evening in June, a young boy, aided by a relative, limped into the Imperi Community Health Center, southern Sierra Leone. The patient had high fever and was coughing. He complained of abdominal pain, all of which are among the most common signs and symptoms of Covid-19.

Unfortunately for him, it was too late. He died moments after his arrival, right at the entrance of the hospital.

Dr Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh.

Sierra Leone’s economy is largely reliant on foreign aid, rather than on national investment or Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Suffice it to say that in other to attract investments certain things must change. They include an improved human rights record and an attractive legal environment. This is because there is a direct correlation between all of these issues.

By Abdulai Khanja Jalloh 

The reason Sierra Leoneans are clamoring for 23 July to be recognized as Media Freedom Day is that on this day in 2020, the Parliament of Sierra Leone repealed the criminal and seditious libel provisions of the Public Order Act of 1965, extensively debated and unanimously passed into law the Independent Media Commission (IMC) Amendment Act 2020.

By Dr. Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh

By Kemo Cham

A lot of heroic actions take place out there in society but most of them go unnoticed, partly because the heroes and heroines are not lucky to get the public attention.

Last week one happened right in front of me. In fact I was involved, except that I wasn't the hero, far from it. Female OSD officer Constable Isatu Lamrana Jalloh was, and this write-up is about her and how she helped take two "bad" people off the streets of Freetown.