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Since returning to Kenema in eastern Sierra Leone last July, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been helping the government hospital there to meet medical needs, the ICRC said on Friday.
A team, consisting of a surgeon, an anesthetist and two specialised nurses are mainly treating people maimed during the fighting in 1998. So far, it has performed some 130 operations involving reconstructive and/or corrective surgery. An average of 15 surgical operations are now taking place every week, the ICRC said.
Future plans include training of local surgeons in war surgery techniques, building a new 40-bed hospital wing, an operating theatre, outpatient consultation and physiotherapy facilities, ICRC said.
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