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To further improve on health care service delivery in the country, the Japanese International Coordinating Agency (JICA) completed the construction of an administrative and storage facility at the Cline Town health facility.

At a short but impressive handing over ceremony of the two structures, the Chairman for the Committee on Health at the Freetown City Council (FCC), Councillor Mohamed Turay commended JICA for coming to the aid of the Western Area District Health Management Team (DHMT) to provide staff with a proper storage facility and an administrative block which will allow health personnel do their work in a more conducive environment.

Resilience is one of those buzzwords that every so often captures the hearts and minds of development practitioners. The importance of this particular term, though, becomes all too clear as the world faces an increasing number of humanitarian crises, including outbreaks that can turn into pandemics.

An Ebola clinical vaccine trial will be launched this July by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the Standard Digital of Kenya reports.

According to Senior Deputy Director of the KEMRI Walter Reed project, Dr Fredric Sawe, the effort by KEMRI is meant to restore the West African region which was worst hit by the deadly Ebola virus.

Makeni, May 20, 016 (MOHS) - The Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone on Thursday May 19, 2016 destroyed counterfeit, expired, unregistered, deteriorated, and classes A and B drugs worth Le185,000,000 at the Makama dumping site in Makeni, northern Sierra Leone.

Making the symbolic fire destruction of the medicines, the Acting Minister of Health and Sanitation,Madam MadinaRahman condemned the sale of drugs by peddlers noting that they create problem for the people that consume these medicines as well as for both themselves and the health system.