Austin Demby
@DembyAustin
Minister of Health for the Government of Sierra Leone. Universal Health Coverage viewed through Life Stages.
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http://mohs.gov.sl 22-06-2018 15:45:43
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Today, Ministry of Health & UNFPA launched an Investment Case for #FamilyPlanning at a high-level dialogue led by our Rep Nadia Rasheed & Ministers Austin Demby & Isata Mahoi.🙏🏿 to UK in Sierra Leone 🇬🇧🇸🇱, World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS Global, @IMF, World Bank, UNICEF & partners for a captivating dialogue.
To end preventable maternal & child deaths, #MoH Austin Demby today received key free health care commodities worth £5.6 million from Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office.Through this UK in Sierra Leone 🇬🇧🇸🇱 partnership,there has been a 90% survival rate of babies at Kingharman Road Hospital in the last 4 months
Conex Energy S\L just showed a true mark of service to the people of Sierra Leone by handing over to Austin Demby fuel cards worth 6000 liters. 3000 of this will go to PCMH and the other to Ola During Children's Hospital. Austin Demby is grateful for this kind gesture.
Funded by LAD, Global Fund, and the Government of Sierra Leone, the vehicles will significantly improve emergency response time and maternal and child health in #SierraLeone . 15 of the vehicles, including all 10 ambulances were funded by LAD and GoSL.
Another big boost for healthcare delivery in #SierraLeone , as the Ministry of Health's Austin Demby today received 19 vehicles, including 10 ambulances and 9 Prados. With 20 more to come, the vehicles will help improve referral systems and ease patients' access to healthcare.
It's corneal transplant week in #SierraLeone 🇸🇱. Day 1: 5 sight-restoring surgeries done. Stay tuned as we work all week with our Duke Eye Center partners to change lives through saving sight MoH Duke Global Health @sights Austin Demby David Moinina Sengeh President Julius Maada Bio
Thanks Austin Demby for your visit to NIH today. We’re eager Fogarty at NIH to help build capacity and expand research collaborations in #SierraLeone 🇸🇱🙏🌍⚕️🔬💪🦠🧠🫀🫁👍
#SierraLeone MoH Minister Austin Demby describes solar power as: 'The energy you can have 24/7, when you want it, how you want it, where you want it.'
The Sierra Leone Healthcare Electrification Project is harnessing this energy to improve healthcare delivery in 🇸🇱!
Achieving UHC requires partnership and collaboration and #MoH is leading the way on the global stage. Earlier today, Austin Demby and Dr. Jalikatu Mustapha engaged the Harvard Global Health Community and Dr. Vanessa Kerry Vanessa Kerry, MD MSc on leveraging good partnerships to achieve UHC in S/L🇸🇱.
Great to catch up with Sierra Leone Minister of Health Austin Demby and Deputy Minister Dr. Jalikatu Mustapha during the HarvardGlobalHealthInstitute's #HGHi2024 event today and discuss our shared partnership.
Health Minister Austin Demby will join HarvardGlobalHealthInstitute annual Global Health Symposium to shed the light on innovative ways to achieving health equity as well as opportunities for Sierra Leone to employ AI to reduce health disparities.
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The brand new School of Midwifery in Kenema is nearly ready for commissioning. The school boasts of lecture halls, mannequin skills labs, male & female student hostels, resource center, staff quarters and their very own radio station. Thank you President Julius Maada Bio We Move…
The School of Midwifery in Bo today oversaw the graduation of 56 new midwives. It's the 5th time that this institution is producing highly skilled and qualified people. Austin Demby is proud to see the Midwifery School improving maternal health in #SierraLeone 🇸🇱.
Brig. Gen. Prof Foday Sahr brings a wealth of experience to the President’s call for an “All-of-Government”, “All-of-Society” approach to fighting drug and substance misuse in SaLone. We should all rally behind his leadership to tackle this national menace. President Julius Maada Bio
A person-centred, integrated approach to primary health care is the cornerstone of #UHC & one which has at its centre #MyHealthMyRight .
On #WorldHealthDay , watch Austin Demby, Sierra Leone's 🇸🇱 Minister of Health, on how this approach is implemented in the country 👇🏿
Austin Demby earlier today visited the eye clinic at Connaught Hospital where Dr. Jalikatu Mustapha, one of Sierra Leone’s 🇸🇱 top eye surgeons, was busy providing care to patients.
This is what leadership by example simply means.