Targets & Initiatives for Health
“Good health is dependent on the city we live in. Transform Freetown is a welcome step forward to advance sustainable Urban development that supports healthier lives for all.”
Dr Dan Youkee, Country Director, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, KCL
Target 1
By 2022, reduce maternal mortality in Freetown by 40%
Initiative 1
Lead
Description
Increase access to quality, respectful maternal care, by
- Establishing blood banks and encouraging blood donation together with technology to track blood availability
- Ambulances for each PHU or groups of PHUs
- Improving access to efficient service delivery for pregnant women in particular an increase in delivery wards
- Incentivising pregnant women to present early
Initiative 2
Lead
Description
Empower and support teenagers to make informed decisions about sexual behaviours, by
- Teenage pregnancy reduction by improved sex education in schools
Target 2
By 2022, increase by 20% the adoption of healthy behaviours to reduce specific non-communicable conditions (diabetes, hypertension, reproductive cancers, mental health, and substance abuse)
Initiative 1
Lead
Description
Introduce regular ‘Healthy Freetonians‘ days, by
- Collaborate with health providers for outreaches on education and awareness
- Quarterly ‘keep fit week’ to improve exercise including free screening
- Make health screening affordable for people and accessible
- Have counsellors to help maintain confidence
- Health fair and free screening and public health education competition
- Education via PA system, door-to-door, radio, social event at schools and health care facilities
Initiative 2
Lead
Description
Facilitate the creation of healthy schools and public spaces, by
- Regulate, protect and enhance healthy spaces and behaviour (Public sphere and Work sphere)
- All FCC schools setting are healthy settings, health promoting schools by 2022
- Regulation to support healthy environment eg. planning for roads smoke free environment
“Bringing health professionals together to brainstorm on issues affecting service delivery in the health sector and how to combat these perils was a relief that we are in the right path in changing the health sector for the better in our county. “
Dr Sarah K. Conteh, Ag. Medical Superintendent