Sierra Leone: As Cholera Takes Over Freetown...

As more cases of Cholera infection were reported within Freetown, attention has been shifted to Susan's Bay in the east of the city where many people claimed needs sanitization to rid the city of the epidemic.

Renowned for its lack of potable water, health care facilities and poor education structure, and most of the wastes from central Freetown reportedly emptied at the community, Susan's Bay is seriously faced with several problems of sanitation yet the area plays an important role to the development of Freetown as it serves as the point at which most of the foodstuffs from river line communities brought in by boats from other parts of the country are offloaded.

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