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Health catastrophe destroys Makeni hospital-no medicines for patients

There has been an acute shortage in medication and medical equipment at the Regional Referral Hospital in the Bombali District of northern Sierra Leone, a facility that serves over 200,000 residents. As a result, there have been increases in preventable deaths among poor patients and of poor patients being abandoned at hospitals by relatives unable to pay fees. Nurses report that hospital conditions are appalling, due to inadequately working or broken equipment and insufficient incentives for many of the employees.


The Regional Medical Superintendant, Dr. Ibrahim Bundu, blames this shortage on the hospital not receiving their drug and device quota from government medical stores since 2007, despite numerous requests. There is also a shortage in qualified health personnel at this facility, adding further strain to the situation.


Despite the shortages, the United Nations Fund for Population has supported the hospital’s maternity ward with many necessary medicines and surgical equipment. Unfortunately, the hospital can afford to provide free medicine to only pregnant women and children under the age of five. Surgery for other patients is performed at a “cost-recovery” basis, with some procedures costing upwards of 100,000 Leones, in addition to existing registration fees of 5,000 Leones and admission fees of 20,000 Leones.

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Facts

  • It is a known fact that handouts do not work; if they worked, the billions of dollars in donations given to non-profits would’ve ended the vicious cycle of dependency in third world nations. But instead of the problems getting better, there is a pressing need for more and more donations every day since millions of children slip through cracks everyday; dying every second from preventable and easily curable diseases.

 

  • Non-profits are allowing millions of children to slip through cracks in the system while millions of dollars are being donated annually.

    Most non-profits use their donations by re-donating to individuals or other organizations without any accountability.

    (Read link below for more information of non-profit accountability)

  • Most non profits raise millions of dollars annually; the cost to construct infrastructure that will provide permanent reliable electricity in over 20 districts in an African country is less than $3 million.

  • Funds raised so locals can drink clean water for a limited period of time unless donations keep pouring in exceeds 10 million dollars. The cost to construct permanent infrastructure for permanent clean water supply in 20 districts in an African country does not exceed 5 million dollars.

Quotes

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