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These two-year-old boys were sent to us by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at Magburaka Government Hospital with a fractured thigh, as they do not have the facility to help these types of trauma cases. For both of them, the unfortunate accident happened a while ago, which makes it more difficult to put the bones back into the right position...

Last month it was announced which employees will be awarded the Lion Heart Scholarship this year. This year, the foundation has made money available for three scholarships in the Netherlands. The aim is to give hospital employees the opportunity to continue their studies and thus help the hospital to further develop. There were…

Saturday, January 6, in the Volkskrant a large piece about 17-year-old Hawa Kargbo from Sierra Leone who becomes pregnant unintentionally. From the positive test onwards, a hellish ride awaits her: 70 percent of global maternal deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa. What if she doesn't make it herself? For those who don't have the Volkskrant,…

Two PharmAccess employees visited Lion Heart Medical Center for the re-evaluation. The report has now been received and we are proud to announce that the international healthcare quality mark Safe Care has awarded our hospital 'Level 3: advanced'. This means we have moved up a level since the previous review of a…

Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the world. Of every thousand babies born in this West African country, 109 do not live to live to the age of five. And for every 100.000 deliveries, 796 women die. For comparison: in the Netherlands only 4 women die per 100.000 births. Lion Heart Medical Center (LHMC) is…

Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. Per 1.000 live born babies, 109 will die before reaching the age of 5 years. And in every 100.000 deliveries 796 women do not survive. In the Netherlands it's only 4 women per 100.000 deliveries. Lion Heart Medical Center (LHMC)…

10-year-old Hassan came to the hospital in September because he had lost a lot of weight in just a few weeks. The skinny boy only weighed 25 kilos. Typhoid fever appeared to have seriously affected his small intestine, requiring the surgical removal of part of his intestine and him being given a stoma. After that, Hassan was in a…

Look for the differences! Two years later, exactly on the same date, Jorkie and JPK again experienced their first day at Lion Heart. Last time, Jorkie was the student as a surgical trainee and JPK was the experienced clinical officer. Now the roles have been reversed and JPK is Jorkie's surgical trainee…

Over the past few months, the entire Lion Heart team has been working hard to prepare for the Safe Care Reassessment. In mid-November, exactly one year after the previous visit, we received two Ghanaian employees from PharmAccess to re-examine our hospital. In two days they tried…

In October, the management team chose to highlight CHO Mohamed Jalloh. He immediately asked if the three other clinical officers could also come forward, because he couldn't do it without them. Our clinical officers see all patients in the hospital together, work long hours and work many shifts. However…