The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday opened an office in Bo, some 150 km east of Freetown, to improve its capacity to monitor health conditions in rural areas.
“The Bo office will facilitate more systematic collection of health data,” Dr William Aldis, WHO’s representative in Sierra Leone, told IRIN. “It will also enable us to work more closely with our local partners and facilitate the provision of technical health assistance.”
WHO’s office in Bo will comprise one doctor and five support staff, Aldis said, and could also serve as a base for technical staff from other UN agencies.
Aldis said the monitoring of maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, malaria and polio eradication were areas of high priority for WHO in Sierra Leone.
He added that WHO was planning to open an office in Makeni in the Northern province when the security situation improved.
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