Sierra Leone: IOM’s Training Academy in Freetown
Channel: IOM - UN Migration
Date: 13/04/2015

Since 1 December 2014, the IOM managed National Ebola Training Academy at the Siaka Stevens Stadium and the Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine in Freetown, Sierra Leone has trained over 5,900 frontline health care professionals on Infection Prevention and Control in collaboration with WHO, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, and supported by the UK Department for International Development. The Academy is the largest training facility in the Ebola affected countries and unique in the services it provides. The Academy has a staff of 30 national and international trainers and 10 expert patients, who are Ebola survivors.