Since the very beginning of The Kambia Appeal, our relationship with Kambia has been based on visits to Sierra Leone by medical personnel from the UK, in particular from Cheltenham General Hospital. Such visits have provided training for local hospital staff and district health workers, as well as much needed clinical work at the hospital.
Midwife Maud Hardy, CHO Mohamed Kamara and Doctors Per and Janaki Brolin at Kambia Hospital in March 2009
Most recent visitors to Kambia include Maud Hardy, a midwife from Leeds, who spent three months in Kambia working with staff on the maternity ward at Kambia Hospital and running antenatal clinics at Barmoi Munu and Masselleh health centres, and Drs Per and Janaki Brolin from Oxford, who worked with the Medical Officer at the hospital for five and a half months providing clinical work on the wards, with a special focus on paediatrics. We are very grateful to the three of them for their enthusiasm, unfailing dedication and hard work in typically Kambian (difficult) circumstances!
Read Per and Janaki’s account of their time in Kambia
Read Mark Wyman’s report of his visit to Kambia in November 2008
