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Dr. Charles Senessie, a Sierra Leone Diaspora Medical Doctor has been awarded at this year’s top 100 Health Care Leaders in the world Awards at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas in the United States of America. Dr. Senessie was nominated and awarded for his dedication and hard work in delivering outstanding health care services in several low and middle-income countries around the world including Sierra Leone. Among the chosen top 100 Health Care Leaders, Dr. Senessie was...

Some 1,300 people have benefited from free surgeries, medical examinations, dental extractions and other medical services delivered by Sierra Leonean professionals living in the Diaspora during a two-week medical mission in Moyamba District, southern Sierra Leone. It could be recalled that in 2017, IOM launched the project: “Strengthening Sierra Leonean National Health Care Capacity through Diaspora Engagement” under its Migration and Development for Africa (MIDA) programme. Through the project, a partnership was created with the Afro-European Medical and...

Moyamba – In 2017, IOM launched the project “Strengthening Sierra Leonean National Health Care Capacity through Diaspora Engagement” under its Migration and Development for Africa (MIDA) programme. Through the project, a partnership was created with the Afro-European Medical and Research Network (AEMRN), a network of diaspora Sierra Leonean healthcare professionals, to provide free healthcare services in rural communities.  Some 1,300 people benefited this month from free surgeries, medical examinations, dental extractions and other medical services delivered by the healthcare professionals during...

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Alpha Wurie (right in photo), capped an extraordinarily busy week at the World Health Organisation’s 72nd annual General Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, with a lengthy bilateral meeting with WHO’s Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (left in photo), on Friday 24 May. Dr. Wurie earlier held fruitful meetings with Cuba’s Minister of Public Health, Jos� Angel Portal Miranda, who extended an official invitation to...

Dr. Charles Senessie together with President Barack Obama, Oprah Windfrey, Rev. Jesse Jackson etc. among The Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders: African Diaspora (from Sierra Leone) in Switzerland. Consultant at the World Health Organization, Clinical Study Reviewer at the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products (Swissmedic); Research Assistant in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Physician at the University Children’s Hospital Basel Switzerland; Demonstrator at the Department of Internal Medicine College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences at the University of Sierra Leone; Founder...

Thousands of patients took the opportunity to see a doctor, nurse or midwife during AEMRN mobile clinics. August 2011-Member of the African-European Research and Medicine Network (AEMRN) Alliance made conversation with recently conducted multidisciplinary medical work camps and mobile clinics in Kitale, northwestern Kenya. AEMRN addressed its core mandate by sharing experiences and knowledge with communities in need and reaching populations living in resource-limited and hard-to-reach areas through a volunteer program powerful and diverse. With a clear, results-oriented mindset, AEMRN members organized...

A combined team of local and international participants from doctors, nurses and scientists enrolled in AEMRN mobile clinics and served communities in Lusaka and Kenya during the summer months. Volunteers with medical and other necessary experiences operated mobile clinics under the direction of local health care providers, national and international health officials and AEMRN leadership. The Afro-European Research and Medicine Network (AEMRN) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that works with a strong vision of partnerships to improve the quality of life,...