Dr Shek Umar Khan, the man leading Sierra Leone's fight against the deadly Ebola disease, died yesterday, days after he had tested positive for the virus. He was aged 39.
He was receiving treatment at the MSF-run centre in Kailahun where he had been taken in shortly after he was diagnosed with the virus.
Dr Khan
The Deputy Minister of Health Dr Abu Bakar Fofanah says the country's lead Ebola doctor who tested positive for the virus "is responding very well to treatment".
By Bampia James Bundu
A local Non-Governmental Organisation in Sierra Leone, Health for All Coalition, has called on President Ernest Bai Koroma "to waste no more time in declaring the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency".
The organisation's director, Charles Mambu said at a meeting with the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone that within one month, over 10 nurses had died of Ebola and that the transmission rate in Kenema was due in part to the interaction between health workers and unsuspecting Ebola patients.
The dispensary at the health centre
By Jenneh Briama
A senior nurse at the Leicester community health centre, in Greater Freetown has described the status of the community hospital as “deplorable”.
A Magistrate, sitting in the southern district town of Pujehun, has committed for trial in the High Court in Bo a case of sexual penetration of a minor involving the assistant procurement officer of the Pujehun District Council.
Magistrate Alford Fidawi said Allieu Vandi, who told the police he was 19 years old, had a case to answer in the High Court on two counts of sexual penetration against a child and meeting a child for sexual purposes, with the Sexual Offences Act 2012 being his instrument.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono.
The Parliamentary Committee on Transparency and Accountability has ordered the Kono District Education Office to account for the "misused and misappropriated sum of Le 52m " which is just over half the amount allocated to them under the Decentralisation Service Delivery Project (DSDP) for the procurement of school furniture.
61 journalists have been killed so far this year in 22 countries around the world, according to the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). The figures are higher than that of the first 6 months of 2013 where the number of killed journalists stood at 59 journalists.
PEC Secretary-General, BlaiseLempen said there was no improvement in the protection of journalists. He added that the great number of conflicts had increased dramatically the risks facing media workers.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
