Twelve
(12) medical doctors from Saving Lives Initiatives in the United States of
American including two Sierra Leoneans, one Orthopedic and General surgeons are
presently in Koinadugu district performing free major and minor surgeries on
locals in that part of the country.
The team is in the country as
part of a fact finding mission aimed at working with the community in this
pilot phase of many visits by working with community people, nurses and the
local medical officers by sharing ideas on how cases are treated on both sides.
Welcoming the medical doctors
on behalf of his chiefdom and the district, Paramount Chief Gbawuru Mansaray
III of Wara Wara Yagala Chiefdom described the visit as ‘timely’ owing to
the fact that the country is just crippling out of the Ebola disease and also
their district is deprived in terms of health service delivery and access to
the available government hospital by his constituents. He assured the team of
ensuring their visits is well utilized by locals thereby pleading for more
subsequent visits.
In an exclusive interview with the team during
lunch at the Kabala Government Hospital, one of the Sierra Leonean doctors,
Malik Jallon, said they are twelve in number with one Orthopedic Surgeon who is
a medical director and head of the mission that deals with bones and general
surgeon, two aestheticians, four nurses, a logistic officer, two physicians
assistants and one surgical officer.
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