Emergencies and severe illness

• Sierra Leone

  • In Sierra Leone, components of the Quick Check+ were used in the WHO Ebola Clinical Team training (for work in ETUs) then post-Ebola to train in all districts, focussing on improving the clinician’s role in disease surveillance and response.

  • In Sierra Leone, after the Ebola outbreak in 2014-2016, the Clinician’s role in disease surveillance and response module was adapted to strengthen its presentation of the International Health Regulations and the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR); to expand the VHF section based on the national experience gained in screening for Ebola as well as a section on Lassa; and to add sections on other priority conditions including with fever, fever with skin manifestations, cholera and a short section on the Quick Check algorithm and emergency treatments. This training module was scaled up to district hospitals and large health centres in all districts in 2016-2017.