IMA’s staff were very excited to have a visit this year from Baby Virginia and her mother! Virginia’s mother brought her to the clinic in 2022, at three days old, with a blood infection and respiratory failure. IMA volunteer V.P. rode in to the Koidu neonatal care unit on a motorbike together with mom and baby, stimulating Baby Virginia’s respirations throughout the 2.5 hour ride to Koidu. After recovering from sepsis, acute liver failure, and respiratory failure during a three-week hospitalization, Baby Virginia was released home. She is now a chubby, happy, healthy 1-year old!
In 2014-2015, International Mutual Aid (IMA) responded to Sierra Leone during the West African Ebola epidemic. Now, IMA's clinicians are back, providing primary and emergency healthcare, and living alongside the people of Gbamandu village. Join us as we spend our days treating every imaginable condition: from high-risk pregnancies to typhoid, schistosomiasis, beri-beri, tropical abscesses, river blindness, and neonatal sepsis.
Monday, August 28, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
New Staff: Abu-Bakar, Aja, and Patrick
A warm welcome to our newest IMA volunteers: Ambulance-motorbike Driver Abu-Bakar, Health Aide Aja, Social Worker Emmanuel, and Registrar Patrick!
Together, they have treated and transported several critical patients, and made the clinic run more smoothly! Welcome!
Left to right: Ambulance Driver Abu-Bakar, Health Aide Aja, Social Worker Emmanuel, and Registrar Patrick