Reason to celebrate

This past February 2016, Adama Martha Memorial Community Health Center (AMMCHC), completed its one year anniversary of being open for patient care. During that time there have been 61 deliveries, 1,325 pregnant woman visits, 15,051 out patient visits, and 170 surgical cases! Our medical team of over 50 local people continue to provide quality health care to the Koidu community.

This past weekend a celebration took place that included two days of festivities. The first day was a day of games such as a 5K race through Koidu streets, tug of war, and soccer. The participants were from AMMCHC as well as from Wellbody / PIH. The competition was friendly yet fierce. The soccer game drew a crowd of over 1000 people!

The second day was a day of formalities. The health center was decorated and over 300 people were in attendance. Paul Violanti, FNP and the Global Health Outreach Director from Buffalo spoke on how Phebian, RN is a medical missionary sent to heal the sick and preach the Gospel just like Jesus did during his ministry. The key note speaker was the Providential Minister who spoke about Phebian's victory over the Vice President 's attacks that had occurred over a year ago with his help. He mentioned that she didn't retaliate but fought with a "stethoscope and Jesus". The day concluded with a good meal. It was quite the celebration and a good time was had by all!

We are celebrating with Phebian and the staff of AMMCHC as they continue  to persevere against all odds of providing quality health care in the name of Jesus to those in Koidu Town, Kono District. We are hopeful in the year ahead that the fruits of our labor will continue to be multiplied and harvested. We are truly grateful!

New Vaccine Program Has Started!

We are thrilled to announce the new vaccine program that has started last week at Adama Martha Memorial Community Health Center! This program is in partnership with the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health. In Sierra Leone, children under 5 years old receive free vaccines. Ministry Health Officers ride around on mopeds from village to village in order to deliver or even administer vaccines to these children. However, the reality is that more often then not the vaccines run out or are not kept at the proper temperature and so they go bad. At AMMCHC, we wanted to offer a solution to this problem for our young patients.

In order to make this program a success, we needed a solar powered refrigerator. A few months back we completed a fundraising campaign to gather funds for this much needed piece of equipment. Last month, it made it across the ocean to our health center and was installed with its very own solar panel for power. There is a picture below of the vaccine refrigerators solar panel sitting on top of the roof.

Umaru Conteh, also pictured below with the vaccine refrigerator, has agreed to lead this vaccine program. He is one of the faithful nursing aids that has been working with us over the past year. In order to qualify for this job, he underwent quite a few weeks of training by the District Health Medical Team. We are receiving all the vaccines free of charge through the District Health Medical Team!

We are excited to launch this much needed initiative!

Umaru, the vaccine program coordinator, with our solar powered refrigerator 

Vaccine Refrigerator Solar Panel