Medical Impact Sierra Leone (MISL) has on Friday 12th January 2024 visited the head of the District Health Management Team Kambia Town and the Management of Community Health Centre (CHC), Port Loko District. MILS five executive representatives, constituted Director Mr. Alieu Badara Sesay, couple with the Program Manager, Project Officer, two females and one male volunteer met with the Kambia District Health Management Team in a meeting convened in the conference room Kambia District.
The meeting lasted for one hour and the activities/events that climax the meeting include:
Introduction of twelve DHMT personnel drawn from eleven (11) Health units/divisions to name but a few: District Health Administration, Surgery, Nutrition, Maternal Health. Focal personnel on District Health and Sanitation, Disaster Management, Nursing Units, Health of PHUs, on the other hand Medical Impact Sierra Leone (MISL) team comprises the lead County Director, Program Manager, Project Officer two volunteers couple with the driver.
Mr Alieu Badara Sesay (Country Director) made statement on the purpose of the visit. He introduced Medical Impact Sierra Leone (MISL) to the Kambia District Health Management Team (DHMT), and initiated and familiarized MISL program activities for the period 2024-2029.
Responses from D H M T centered on Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS) partnership with other health actors’ policy protocols and compliance.
However, what was clear was that through continuing interactive health care delivery interventions and research, the need for broader examination of training needs, prevention campaigns, workable outreach, schedules, disease prevention activities and funding quickly become apparent to both MISL and Kambia and Portloko DHMT. Aside from oral presentations, promise was made for written briefs to be submitted in subsequent interaction when MISL must have presented documents of MOHS partnership Agreement.
In addition to endorsing MISL activities in Kambia District in agreement with MOHS participants at the January 12th meeting, other important issues to be addressed by Kambia DHMT were highlighted: such as the fact that the central health care delivery actor while in the course of MISL field work would seek and rely on MISL for support in other to increase access, provision of health commodities and improve on quality and equity. The event was reasonably successful and ended with a recommendation from Kambia DHMT for a reschedule meeting after the approval or signing of the MISL Serving Level Agreement with MOHS.