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Sierra Leone: Community Calls for Clinic After 48 Deaths
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Concord Times (Freetown)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Ben Samuel Turay
Freetown
Residents of Tokeh Village in the peninsular, some 20 miles away from Freetown, have reported 48 deaths since last December due to lack of accessible healthcare.
Headman of the village Alhaji James Slowe told Concord Times that the community is in serious need of a clinic.
"The present situation of the community is not good.
We are over 2000 here, including the surrounding villages but we have no clinic, public toilets or a Secondary school," Slowe said.
He said the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) started a clinic project which was stopped adding that residents are suffering from preventable and curable diseases.
"Our land is full of sand, so we have no where to dig for a toilet. We need NGOs to help us develop this land," he said.
Secretary general of the community Sheriff Bangura said they have problems with the community lands.
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"People are coming from different places to disturb us for our properties," Bangura said.
Mariatu Sesay, a petty trader, said their children die every month of curable diseases.
She said the community has been using the market place as a clinic. "I am happy at least we now have a semi health center because residents were beginning to run away from the community because of the high rate of deaths," she said.
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