*** The IMA 2024 Deployment Report is now Available, click here ***
The Inaugural 2025 IMA Scholarship Program for Sierra Leonean Medical Students was a Great Success!
In May 2025, fifteen university and students and university aspirants joined IMA for a Volunteer Week at our Gbamandu Clinic. The students were selected via a rigorous and objective application process. The volunteer week was the final phase of the application process, and provided opportunities for hands-on learning, performance evaluation, career and educational track advising, and networking. The students had opportunities to assist in labor and delivery, neonatal health assessments, antenatal care, pediatric medical treatment, malnutrition assessments and treatment, infectious and tropical disease diagnosis and treatment, emergency cases, and adult primary care appointments. In the end, seven currently enrolled university students were selected and received IMA scholarships, which will pay most of all of their tuition costs for 2025. Our selectees are all children of Soa Chiefdom, who are enrolled in physician, nursing, and public health programs in Freetown, Bo, Bonthe, Makeni, and Koidu. It was a wonderful week for everyone!
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Construction is complete on the new women's health center and staff quarters!
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First two babies born in the new Women's Health Center, October 2022
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Made possible by the hard work of the local community, and donations from International mutual aid and the sons and daughters of mofinkor, the women's health center will provide a safe location for antenatal care, birthing, and postpartum observation. it will provide a quiet, clean environment for new mothers, and a safe separation between infectious disease treatment (at the main clinic) and obstetric activities.