Weekly Highlights
IOM continues to respond to the Magazine Wharf outbreak with 15 staff providing daily mentoring to local healthcare workers and medical supply restock in 7 community Peripheral Health Units 7 days per week. A rapid needs assessment of community handwashing stations was carried out on 1 July and continued community outreach is ongoing.
On 3 July, the 4th Emergency Simulation Exercise was held at Lungi International Airport and NERC CEO Paolo Conteh paid an informal visit to IOM’s Kambia sub-office.
Over the past week IOM’s Health and Humanitarian Border Management (HHBM) project established 5 Flow Monitoring Points in Kambia and in Freetown. Collected data will be shared with the NERC and used to support surveillance and contact tracing activities.
From 1-2 July, a two day mobile training on Infection Prevention and Control was held for 27 newly recruited IOM emergency care kits field monitors and HHBM monitoring staff in Makeni.