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In Sierra Leone, maternal and child health care services are being transformed through an initiative called Quality Essential Health Services and System Support Project (QEHSSSP).
In Sierra Leone, 14 PIH midwives support mothers from preterm to postpartum care at Wellbody Clinic and KGH, helping reduce maternal mortality. Meet Aminata Kamara and Harolda Onike.
Partners In Health Sierra Leone launched the nation’s first 24/7 toll-free mental health helpline, addressing a historic lack of care. Staffed by counselors, it has received over 430 calls so far.
Sierra Leone’s MOHS, partnered with PIH and World Bank, is tackling high maternal and child mortality by boosting rural care with a hub‐and‐spoke model for essential services.
Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital earned a 5-year accreditation for its first psychiatry residency program, enabling in-country psychiatrist training and advancing mental health care nationwide.
Early on in her pregnancy, 17-year-old Susan Lebbie sought medical care at Partners In Health (PIH)-supported Koidu Government Hospital.
After centuries of extraction by foreign powers, Sierra Leone remains resource-rich but cash-poor, with little to spend on its population’s health. This injustice takes an extreme, visceral form in Kono District, where West Africa’s largest diamond mine sits a short walk away from Koidu Government Hospital (KGH), the district’s only hospital.
Across Kono District, in the rural east of Sierra Leone, Partners In Health-supported health facilities are busier than ever. It’s not that patient needs are increasing—it’s that the quality of health care available is, thanks to PIH and the Ministry of Health & Sanitation’s partnership.
Every other Friday in Kono District, Sierra Leone, the quiet, serene campus of Wellbody Clinic’s birth waiting home erupts with noise. Women chat. Toddlers squeal. A wood fire crackles.