Press release June 2013
Saving lives at Bo Children's Hospital
The Rotary Club of Bournemouth East Cliff has been one of the partners in this major project in establishing a specialist children's hospital in Bo, the second city of Sierra Leone. Working with the Rotary Clubs of Turramarra in Australia and the community of Bo, the first phase of the hospital is now operating, saving children's lives.
As part of Bournemouth's ongoing support the club is paying the salary for a specialist children's nurse, Mrs Martha Hoilma Sandi. Trained in Sierra Leone, Mrs Sandi is a registered SECHN who has worked with specialist pediatric doctors in Freetown and with the international aid agency Medicine sand Frontiers.
The Bournemouth Club is continuing to support this development in one of the poorest countries in Africa, and where infant mortality is amongst the highest in the world. Mrs Sandi as part of the clinical team will be treating over 200 children a month with a variety of life threatening conditions including, malaria, pneumonia, sepsis, gastroenteritis and typhoid.
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