Renovated Gbondapi centre improves maternal care for 14 communities
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sierra Loaded
Illustrative image · Jonathan Borba · Pexels · Licence PexelsSierra Leone’s Ministry of Health has reopened the Gbondapi Community Health Centre after renovations to provide emergency obstetric and newborn care to more than 9,067 people across 14 communities. The facility has four delivery beds, nine postnatal beds and two ultrasound scanners, among other equipment, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Gbondapi Community Health Centre in Pujehun District has been rehabilitated to improve maternal and newborn care for more than 9,067 people across 14 communities in Pujehun and neighbouring Bonthe District, Sierra Loaded reports. Health Minister Austin Demby commissioned the facility.
The centre now has four delivery beds, nine postnatal beds, three birth-waiting spaces for pregnant women, two ultrasound scanners, two oxygen concentrators and two pulse oximeters. The works also covered the labour and delivery rooms, toilets, solar electricity supply, air conditioning, drainage and paved surroundings, according to the Ministry of Health.
From October 2025 to September 2026, the centre recorded 379 deliveries, 101% of its target, as well as 401 first antenatal care visits, Sierra Loaded reports. Austin Demby announced plans to build a 100-bed hospital about five kilometres from Gbondapi, subject to further consultations.
The rehabilitation comes as residents had called for urgent work on the road linking Pujehun and Gbondapi on 19 October. Residents call for the Pujehun-Gbondapi road to be rehabilitated.
