{"id":198976,"date":"2025-05-28T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-complementing-the-knowledge-and-skills-of-the-medical-staff-in-sierra-leone\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T05:18:19","slug":"sierra-leone-complementing-the-knowledge-and-skills-of-the-medical-staff-in-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-complementing-the-knowledge-and-skills-of-the-medical-staff-in-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Complementing the Knowledge and Skills of the Medical Staff in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In Sierra Leone, after the Ebola epidemic heavily affected the country&#8217;s healthcare workforce, the M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) Academy for Healthcare was launched in 2018 to strengthen the skills and competencies of frontline healthcare workers, with the goal to have a long-term impact on the quality of care provided in healthcare facilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"92\">Sierra Leone remains one of the top ten countries with the highest maternal mortality rates in the world recording 354 deaths per 100,000 live births in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505280060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sierra Leone, after the Ebola epidemic heavily affected the country&#8217;s healthcare workforce, the M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) Academy for Healthcare was launched in 2018 to strengthen the skills and competencies of frontline healthcare workers, with the goal to have a long-term impact on the quality of care provided in healthcare facilities. Sierra Leone remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,29777,8400,6572,7417,257,6571,1135,6781,254,6221],"class_list":["post-198976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-complementing","tag-knowledge","tag-leone","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-skills","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}