After many years in Sierra Leone, I have made friends and built many schools, clinics and homes. It is exciting that one of the places where I have been enabling the building of wards, accommodation and refurbishment is the AHS Hospital in Waterloo. During the last year, it was taken over as an Ebola centre but after this was closed in the summer, it opened this week to normal patients. What joy as the minister came and the first needy patients were treated. Primary health care suffered dreadfully under Ebola. It is just wonderful to celebrate with Dr David Koroma and his staff that such a new start is possible.
This hospital is also only 3 miles form our village and I have no doubt that the years of investment in this hospital and its staff will have great provision for those who come to live in the community we are building. This picture is of me last year when we were constructing the ward that is now home to children and maternity.
This is a picture of Dr Koroma when we visited in May 2015 when the hospital was still an Ebola clinic.
