Weekly Highlights
IOM clinicians in collaboration with the Ebola Response Consortium are providing Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) training support at Connaught, Princess Christian’s Maternity and Ola During Children’s Hospitals and have now trained 644 hospital personnel.
IOM and World Hope International held a one day conference on Cultural Burial Liaisons at the University of Makeni on 18 August with the participation of NERC, OFDA, WHO, District Coordinators from Kambia, Bombali, Port Loko and the Chief of Staff from Tonkolili.
IOM hosted an inter-agency cooperation workshop at the Lungi Airport Hotel on 18 August 2015 together with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s border health team (CDC) in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Airport Authority’s Public Relations Office.
IOM mobile teams concluded three separate trainings across Bombali district for 108 participants coming from community task forces, the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, the Sierra Leone Police, DHMT health screeners, the motorcycle drivers’ union and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.