Gibrillia Kamara
When Gibrillia Kamara was one year old, his mother took him to a government hospital, where his clubfeet could be corrected through casts. Unfortunately, the removal of the first set of casts disclosed a deep sore on […]
Trip Reports
Covid-19 is hitting harder
Currently Covid-19 is present in Freetown and in other towns of Sierra Leone and neighboring Guinea. But without adequate testing it is still unclear how prevalent it is. Travel restrictions bar movement between districts, making
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Joseph Kamara
Joseph Kamara, now 48, suffered from polio when he was a child. Last January, Africa Surgery presented him with a mobility cart (donated by Mobility World Wide) to allow him to easily go
Clean water at the Pentecostal Nursery School
Last February, Africa Surgery delivered a portable water purification device to the head mistress of the Free Pentecostal Church Nursery School in Wellington, Sierra Leone. This was one of several machines donated by
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Lockdown
On April 6 Sierra Leone imposed a nationwide, mandatory, three-day lockdown. Four cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Freetown. Not many so far, but the neighboring country of Guinea had confirmed over 100