Friday 31 October 2014
Thursday 30 October 2014
National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 29, 2014
DISCHARGED CASES
Total Survived and Released Patients = 786
Wednesday 29 October 2014
EU Director of Operations Pays Courtesy Call on President Koroma
China, others Intensify Support to Eradicate Ebola
Tuesday 28 October 2014
National Ebola Response Centre PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 28, 2014
· DISCHARGED CASES
- Total Survived and Released Patients = 781
President Koroma Issues Stern Warning to Traditional and Religious Leaders
By State House Communications Unit
HE talking to chiefs and religious leaders |
On a working visit to Port Loko, Bombali and
Tonkolili districts over the weekend, President Ernest Bai Koroma issued a
stern warning to traditional and religious leaders to take responsibility to
halt the spread of the virus in their chiefdoms and districts.
IT4D & JAMBOREE CONSULT DESIGNED A MOBILE APP THAT DETECTS EBOLA PRESENCE IN AN AREA
In response to the
Ebola Scourge Innovative Technologies for Development Foundation (IT4D) and
Jamboree Consultancy has designed an application that can detect the presence
of Ebola Virus Disease in an area and help you prevent the disease even while
you are in that area.
Sunday 26 October 2014
EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 26, 2014
PRESS RELEASE
EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 26,
2014
Ø DISCHARGED CASES
- Total Survived and Released Patients = 724
National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 25, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED
CASES
· Total Survived and
Released Patients = 722
National Emergency Operations Centre (NERC) PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 24, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED
CASES
· Total Survived and
Released Patients = 713 (No new discharge figures reported
today)
President Koroma Hosts AU Chairperson
By State House Communications Unit
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Thursday 23rd
October hosted a high powered delegation led by the Chairperson of the African
Union (AU) Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and the Executive Secretary of the
Economic Commission for Africa Mr. Carlos Lopes at State House, Freetown.
President Koroma Receives German Ebola Coordinator
Civil Service, Sayaba, Others Boost Ebola Fight
By State House Communications Unit
As public and private sector institutions continue to ramp up efforts to
contain the spread of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the country, President
Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday 22nd October expressed
appreciation and commended the level of commitment shown by citizens and well
wishers to aid the fight against Ebola.
Thursday 23 October 2014
National Emergency Response Centre (NERC) PRESS RELEASE
EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 22, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED CASES
Total Survived and Released Patients = 710
Wednesday 22 October 2014
National Ebola Response Center (NERC) PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 21, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED CASES
· Total Survived and
Released Patients = 656
Sierra Leone has never exported Ebola
Jaramenajara and John Koroma
Panic is escalating in the west as the first Ebola patient succumbed to
the disease two weeks ago in Dallas, Texas.
Sunday 19 October 2014
National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 19, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED
CASES
·
Total Survived
and Released Patients = 634
Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Ministry of Health and Sanitation PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 18, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED
CASES
·
Total Survived
and Released Patients = 629
Sierra Leone diplomats call for collective action to eradicate sexual violence
Sierra Leone's top UN diplomat and Special
Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on Sexual Violence in Armed
Conflicts, Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura, and Sierra Leone’s Deputy Permanent
Representative to the African Union Commission, Ambassador Ismael Koroma, have
called for strong political will and collective action to end sexual violence
in armed conflicts and post conflict environments in Africa and the world as a
whole.
The Fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone Do we have the needed competent Human Resource (HR) capacity?
By
Mohamed C. Bah, former NDA Presidential aspirant, Atlanta, GA-USA.
My
beautiful and beloved country of Sierra Leone is still not ready for the fight
against the persistent virus that is rapidly killing our innocent citizens in
their hundreds if not in their thousands.
PRESS RELEASE from the Office of the President
Saturday 18 October 2014
Ebola Hardest Hit Countries Urge World Bank to Expedite Emergency Fiscal Support Disbursements
Dr. Marah, Sierra Leone's Finance Minister, and Bank Governor, Mr. Kargbo |
Friday 17 October 2014
ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE TO PLENARY OF THE 40 CHANCES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM, A JOINT PROGRAM OF THE HOWARD G. BUFFET FOUNDATION, MINISTER TONY BLAIR’S AFRICAN GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE AND THE WORLD FOOD PRIZE FOUNDATION. THE ROLE OF ENTERPRISING YOUTH IN SIERRA LEONE’S AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
Thursday 16 October 2014
“Isolation of Ebola Affected Countries Amount to Economic Embargo” Dr. Kaifala Marah: S/Leone’s Finance Min.
S/Leone's Minister of Finance Dr. Marah advocating for Sierra Leone |
Dr. Kaifala Marah,
Sierra Leone’s Finance and Economic Development Minister has appealed to
members of the International Community including neighboring Countries of the
Ebola affected Countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to exercise
restraint and not to isolate the trio.
Tuesday 14 October 2014
WORK PROGRESS AT MAMAMAH AIRPORT PROJECT Freetown International Airport Project (FIAP) Project Implementation Unit (PIU) Ministry of Transport and Aviation
The New Freetown International Airport
Project is the Brain child of His Excellence the President Dr. Ernest Bai
Koroma to open Sierra Leone for business, tourism, direct foreign investment
and a regional aviation hub (West Africa); in the likes of Jomo Kenyatta
Airport in Nairobi, Kenya in East Africa.
Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) as Technical Assistance for the fight against the Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Sierra Leone.
The Technical Assistance came a few weeks
after an appeal was made by Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, Alhaji M.S Kargbo on behalf of the Government of Sierra Leone
concerning the control of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) which continues to
ravage the country.
Monday 13 October 2014
Saturday 11 October 2014
IRC Calls for Salone Wish List To Combat Ebola
By State House Communications Unit
As the fight against Ebola takes center
stage in international media circles, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
International Rescue Committee, (IRC) Hon. David Wright Miliband on Thursday
9th October paid a courtesy call on President Ernest Bai Koroma at State House,
Freetown.
Friday 10 October 2014
Thursday 9 October 2014
STATEMENT AT THE WORLD BANK ROUND TABLE ON EBOLA ON 9th OCTOBER, 2014
PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 8, 2014
Ø DISCHARGED
CASES
· Total Survived and
Released Patients = 538
Wednesday 8 October 2014
UNMEER SRSG Assures Sierra Leone Women
The Special Representative of the Secretary
General and Head of United Nations Mission on Ebola Emergency Response
(UNMEER), Anthony Banbury accompanied by the Country Representative of UN Women
Dr. Mary Okumu last Friday, 3rd
October, 2014 assured the women of Sierra Leone of UN’s fullest support in the
fight against the Ebola virus disease.
“All is not lost” President Koroma Buoys Health Workers
By State House
Communications Unit
49) Ebola Survivors Cured by Sierra Leonean Medical staff |
At a ceremony
organized by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation on Monday 6th October,
President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma officially presided over the discharge of
forty-nine (49) Ebola survivors treated and cured by an all Sierra Leonean
medical staff at the Hastings Treatment Centre.
PRESS RELEASE EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES---October 7, 2014
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Ebola Outbreak: Can our Support Make a Difference?
Sierra Leone hailed in the fight against Ebola
By Jaramenajara and Thullah Wise
A
French expert in tropical diseases, Michel Gonza, has stated in an exclusive
interview with Radio France International that Sierra Leone is in the right
direction in the fight against Ebola taking into consideration the level of
social mobilization, sensitization and the public response associated with the
“Ose to Ose Ebola Tok Campaign” organized some few weeks back.
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