10 Mar Renovating Mattru Hospital

Much progress has been made in renovating Mattru Hospital in Sierra Leone. After attending a meeting of the Mattru Hospital Medical Board, the United Nations representative was so impressed that she went back to Freetown and wrote a check for the balance of the renovations.

Some of the work that has been done:

• The maternity ward has been renovated with a new roof, new ceiling, and new delivery rooms.
• The laboratory has new shelving and new tile work.
• The surgery room is renovated
• Housing area for two Nigerian mid-wives has been completely renovated.
• The Danke Koroma Foundation will completely renovate another building at their expense.
• The nation’s First Lady has chosen to renovate the doctor’s residence.