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This month, Dr. Louise was unanimously voted Employee of the Month. With her hard work, Louise has made a significant contribution to medical care, infection prevention and training of hospital health workers. As a daily supervisor of our tropical doctors-in-training and as a point of contact for other clinicians, she makes an important contribution to strengthening…

This month there will be two important “changing of the guards”. First, our chief nurse and management team member Amara Musa left us. He has started a Community Health Officer (CHO) training at Njalla University and has handed over his leadership baton to Mariama Kamara. Mariama Kamara has worked as a nurse in the past…

On October 27, we concluded a 'Memorandum of Understanding' with Erasmus MC/Sophia, Neonatology Department. Together we will work on sharing knowledge in the field of mother/child care, developing preventive health care programs and exchanging students/employees in due course. Our first action is aimed at enabling 'telecare': 24/7 possibility of sparring…

Another employee of the month this month. This honor went to our “head of security” Sallieu Kamara. Sallieu is the first face visitors to our hospital see during the day when they enter the hospital grounds, and the last face when they leave. Sallieu is always respectful and friendly, but also clearly…

As of November there is a changing of the guard of our surgical trainees: Mohamed Jorkie, who was associated with Lion Heart Medical Center for 6 months as a surgical trainee, will be succeeded by Paul Lappia. During his time at Lion Heart, Mohamed Jorkie learned to operate inguinal hernias, caesarean sections, wound treatments and skin grafts, among other things. He…

November was dominated by training the employees in the care of the acutely ill patient. For example, a simulation and scenario training was organized to practice with pregnancy complications, in which one of the nurses was driven into the hospital as “pregnant” in the ambulance. The team of the obstetrics department was then allowed to…

On November 9, the time had finally come: After a long journey, the new X-ray machine for Lion Heart Medical Center arrived in Yele. After a delayed voyage and a lengthy clearance process at Freetown harbor, Yankuba Sesay was able to transport the device from Delft Imaging to Yele. The coming weeks will be all about…

This month the honor went to our surgical officer Mohamed Bangura. Mohamed has been working for Lion Heart Medical Center since early 2020 and has made a huge contribution to clinical care in the hospital since then. With his training in surgery and obstetrics through CapaCare, he is able to perform both emergency surgical…

In mid-September, after a lengthy clearance process at the Port of Freetown, a container of medicines and donated materials arrived at Lion Heart Medical Center. This time, the container shipment was organized together with Masanga Hospital to save costs. Thanks to the hard work of the local management team (including sleeping three nights on the road…

From January 2022, Lion Heart will offer training places for pediatric CHOs (nursing specialists) in training. In addition to CapaCare's program that trains surgical nurse specialists in Sierra Leone, the organization German Doctors will start a similar program to have more experienced pediatric nurse specialists available in Sierra Leone in the future. Due to the presence of…