Report says a fire incident has left at least one hundred and forty houses completely burnt down in Kawukulu village few miles from Bumbuna in the Kalasongoya Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone. The incident which occurred on Monday 20th February left about three thousand people homeless. Alieu Thomas Koroma, Chairman of the Mabang Development Organization alleged that the incident was caused by one Sarah Koroma, a farmer, who set fire to her farm bush on a hill side, very close to Kawukulu village. Mr. Koroma told CTN that there was no serious casualty, but properties worth millions of Leones were destroyed. Meanwhile, the National Commission for Social Action NaCSA with the help of Paramount Chief Alimamy Bockari Yalang Koroma the third of Kalasongoya chiefdom has provided relief items for victims of the fire incident.

A post-mortem carried out on journalist Ibrahim Foday on Tuesday shows that he died of stab wounds.

The beverage maker, Sierra Leone Bottling Company has donated a consignment of drugs, medical supplies and drugs worth US$ 200,000 to the King Harman Road Hospital. In a statement before the donation, the Regional General Manager for Sierra Leone and Liberia Rocky Findley said they were not only in Sierra Leone to do business but also to  help improve on the quality of life of the people.   Mr. Findley described the donation as a way of complementing the government’s free health care scheme.   He pledged his company’s commitment to continue the delivering of quality products, invest more capital as well as supporting the developmental strides of the country.   The Medical Superintendent of the King Harman Road Hospital, Doctor Alex Kanu commended the Sierra Leone Bottling Company for the donation which he said would help improve the status of the hospital, especially so when it had been constrained with medical equipment and drugs.   Tamba Borbor Sawyer, Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation while commending the company said his ministry would monitor the use of the drugs and equipment to ensure that they reach the targeted beneficiaries.            

The Programme Manager for Child Health in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation said the pre-launch of the pneumonia campaign in Sierra Leone is to create visibility and raise awareness on the Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) in the country. Reverend Doctor Thomas Samba said the ARI mostly affect children and was largely responsible for infant deaths in the country. He said government and the World Health Organisation was already on the stage of co-funding to make it available in the country noting Sierra Leone was the first country in Africa to access such opportunity.  Dr. Samba told CTN that it was good for parents to embrace the seven vaccines in the programme which would prevent ten childhood killer diseases.  Dr. Samba added that the ministry was currently preparing to formally launch the vaccine in Bo at the end of this month.  He said the government and private health institutions would routinely deliver the service to children under five.