Sierra Leone: NMDHR Takes FHC to Yenga

After years of deprivation, representatives from Yenga and other affected villages in Kailahun were trained on maternal health care and the free health care policy. Though the free health care policy is to ensure pregnant women, lactating mothers and under-5 children are provided with medicare, women in the once Guinean-occupied villages in Kailahun District were deprived of the opportunity.

Director of the Network Movement for Democracy and Human Right, James Mathew, said though the FHC is of vital importance to the socio-economic development of the country, yet most traditional leaders are still poorly prepared to help in its implementation. "This is most predominant in the once occupied villages in Kailahun, such as Yenga, and other villages in Koinadugu," he said.

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