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- What are the main medical
issues in Kambia?
- What medical facilities
are currently available in Kambia/Sierra Leone?
- What medical facilities
are needed in Kambia?
- What opportunities are
there for electives to visit Kambia? Who should they contact?
- What training opportunities
do you provide for medical staff?
- How widespread is HIV/AIDS?
- Some medical statistics
1) What are
the main medical issues in Kambia?
Trauma, infectious diseases, obstetric complications, hernias,
intestinal obstructions
2) What medical facilities are currently
available in Kambia/Sierra Leone ?
Kambia Hospital reopened on 4th June 2004.
3) What medical facilities are needed in
Kambia?
Facilities needed are equipment for the hospital, including
basic diagnostic radiology, ultrasound, equipment for the operating
theatre, supplies of intravenous giving sets (drips) urethral
catheters, suture material, gloves etc.
4) What opportunities are there for electives
to visit Kambia? Who should they contact?
Medical students have visited Kambia. Research carried out by
one student, Julia Fortes, won the John Lawson prize of The
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2005.
Electives
would need to self-fund their travel arrangements to Sierra
Leone. For further information, electives should contact Richard
Kerr-Wilson, 26 Moorend Road, Cheltenham, Glos. GL53 0HD. Email:
info@kambia.org.uk
5) What training opportunities do you provide
for medical staff?
Information and guidance is provided for medical personnel
who visit Kambia but training is not given. Medical staff would
need to self-fund their travel arrangements to Sierra Leone.
6) How widespread is HIV/AIDS?
There are few reliable statistics on HIV/AIDS prevalence
rates. Estimates are that HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone is 4.9% for
the country as a whole and 6.1% for Freetown. HIV/AIDS will be
one of the biggest challenges facing post-war Sierra Leone.
There is an urgent need to provide HIV/AIDS education,
counselling, condoms, and health care.
7) Some medical statistics
- Average life expectancy is around 37 years, the lowest
in the world.
- Fertility rate is 6 children born/woman.
- Maternal mortality is 1,800/100,000.
- Infant mortality is 170/1,000.
- 28% of children die before they reach their fifth
birthday.
- It is estimated (in 1999) that 68,000 people are living
with HIV/AIDS.
- There are currently 10,000 amputees and war wounded
in Sierra Leone.
- 64% of people do not have access to safe water.
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