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By Septimus Senessie in Kono 

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

In the face of wide public outcry over the conduct of members of the Sierra Leone Police and the Police Complaints, Discipline and Internal Investigations Department (SLP/CDIID) which was set up to check the force, the government thought it fit to set up the Independent Police Complaints Board (IPCB) to handle issues relating to police discipline.

By Kemo Cham

The Ebola outbreak and its effect on the healthcare work force in Sierra Leone exposed the weakness of the system and emphasized the need to place premium on training, medical students and officials have said.

When the epidemic erupted, healthcare workers were at the forefront as expected. And even after months into the ‘battle’ there was very little knowledge about the disease, leaving a vast proportion of the population, many of them medical personnel themselves, highly vulnerable.

By Kemo Cham

China is to deploy a new Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone, bringing to four the number of such trials in the country.

Ad5-Ebov is a recombinant adenoviral Ebola vaccine, co-developed by the Bioengineering Institute of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) and the privately owned vaccine manufacturer Tianin Casino Biotechnology Inc. This makes it a public-private partnership between the Chinese government and Casino.

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone is reviewing its curriculum in the training of midwives, a crucial component in the country`s effort to cut down on its discouragingly high rates of maternal and infant deaths.

The review, according to health officials, has been informed by the need to ensure quality assurance measures by producing skilled birth attendants.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

For one month now there has been no sitting at the Pujehun Magistrate Court, the court Registrar Fayia Joshua Mansaray, has disclosed.

“It has taken complete one month without magistrate court sitting in the district headquarters town of Pujehun and over eight to nine months without sitting in Zimmi Makpele, along the Mano River Border axis,” Mr Joshua told Politico.

The situation, according to various sources in the local judicial sector, has led to frustration caused by a backlog of cases awaiting hearing.

By Kemoh Sesay  

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Ebola Respond Center (NERC) has expressed optimism in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone, citing “progress” in the past weeks.

But the Rtd Major Alfred Palo Conteh, while addressing press men at his weekly Press Conference at the NERC Headquarters on Wednesday, also warned against complaisance. He said the last two patients discharged from the IMC EVD treatment Center in Kambia marked the end of EVD event management in that district.