Ebola survivors
Sixty people who had tested positive for Ebola have been cured of the haemorrhagic fever, according to a press release from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation issued yesterday.
This, since the outbreak started in May.
Sierra Leone to miss out on MDGs 4 and 5
With almost 500 days to go to the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, Sierra Leone will not meet Goals 4 and 5 on the reduction of maternal and infant deaths.
According to Amina Muhammed, UN Assistant Secretary General and Special Adviser to Ban Ki-Moon on Post-2015 Development Agenda, Africa is lagging behind in especially these areas.
Showdown in Sierra Leone FA
The Secretary General of the Western Area Football Association has told Politico that a group of football stakeholders will meet today to "invoke Article 28 of the SLFA constitution which says among other things that 'The executive committee shall convene an extraordinary congress if 50% of the delegates of SLFA make such a request in writing...An extraordinary congress shall be held within 90 days by the executive committee..."
5 Ebola suspects on the run in Bo
By Bob Batilo Saffa in Kenema
District medical officer in the southern city of Bo, Dr Alhaji Turay, has confirmed to journalists at an Ebola orientation training in the township that five suspected Ebola cases are on the run.
He said “the issue around those suspects is worrisome for the district”, adding that a man just died of the disease in Jembeh, along the Kenema/Bo highway.
Nursing College joins Sierra Leone Ebola fight
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
Western African College of Nursing, Sierra Leone chapter, has convened a seminar on the spread of Ebola and its treatment at the Cathedral House on Gloucester Street in Freetown.
The event started around 9am with a march past, through Siaka Stevens Street, from the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital and attracted nurses in their hundreds who distributed brochures, displayed banners and used blaring speakers to send out Ebola prevention messages.
Ebola kills one in Pujehun, southern Sierra Leone
By Mohamed T Massaquoi
The Pujehun district health management team has confirmed the death of one person in the town of Zimmi from the Ebola virus.
Kono traders flout Ebola ban
By Septimus Senessie in Kono
Traders in the eastern Kono district say they will not in any way “honour and recognise” the temporary ban slammed by some authorities of the district on their weekly trade fair at the Konomayi Lorry Park in Koidu.
