14/06/2025
🔧 Latest Development Projects at Connaught Hospital – 2024/2025
Connaught Hospital is undergoing an impressive transformation through a series of modernization projects aimed at enhancing patient care, safety, and operational efficiency. Below are the major ongoing and completed initiatives:
1. 1.2MW Solar Electrification
• Launched: June 12, 2025 (commissioned by His Excellency the Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh).
• Impact: 24/7 electricity for critical departments (theatres, ICU, labs, emergency, oxygen plant).
• Benefit: Eliminates disruptions due to national power outages, ensures uninterrupted surgeries and patient support.
• Reduced diesel costs, greener energy source, reliable backup power to sustain heavy equipment and lighting needs.
2. New Burns & Reconstructive Surgery Centre
• Development: Completing construction of a dedicated burns and reconstructive center.
• Benefit: First of its kind in Sierra Leone; will serve local and regional patients (Liberia, Guinea), improving specialized care and surgical training.
3. Total Remodeling & Modernization of ICU
• Details: Fully reconstructed with modern and automated equipment.
• Benefit: Improved critical care outcomes, infection control, patient monitoring, and staff efficiency.
4. Installation of CCTV Surveillance System
• Purpose: Enhances safety and accountability in hospital operations.
• Benefit: Better security for patients, staff, and property. Reduces theft, ensures monitoring in sensitive areas (pharmacy, ICU, wards).
5. Provision of Piped Oxygen to Emergency Unit
• Achievement: Now oxygen-supplied independently of electricity.
• Benefit: Life-saving respiratory support available without reliance on power or cylinders; ideal for emergencies and mass casualty response.
6. Reconstruction of Radiology Department
• Upgrades: New infrastructure to house CT scan and Doppler ultrasound.
• Benefit: Faster and more accurate diagnostics, improved trauma and internal medicine care, supports specialist services.
7. Improved Dialysis & Trauma Units
• Progress: Near completion.
• Benefit: Local access to renal therapy and critical trauma care, reducing referrals abroad and patient wait times.
8. Modern Microbiology Laboratory
• Status: Modernized & automated equipment with full reagents supply
• Benefit: Better, accurate & improved diagnostics, infection control, antimicrobial stewardship, accurate disease surveillance and outbreak response.
9. Electronic Medical Records (EMR) System
• Implementation: Ongoing.
• Benefit: Improved data accuracy, easier access to patient history, better continuity of care and decision-making.
10. SLEWS (Sierra Leone Early Warning Signs) & Clinical Mentorship Programme
• Rollout: Ongoing.
• Benefit: Early identification of deteriorating patients; regional training extends best practices beyond Freetown.
🎯 Key Benefits to the Health System
A. Energy & Oxygen Supply - Constant care, functional oxygen support, lower operational costs
B. Diagnostics & ICU - Faster, safer, more accurate treatment for critical and complex cases
C. Security & Surveillance - Improved patient safety, staff accountability, better facility control
D. Specialized Services - Access to burns, dialysis, trauma, and reconstructive care locally
E. Record Keeping (EMR) - Better follow-up, efficient referrals, and data-driven clinical audits
F. Staff & System Efficiency - Reduced workload, improved morale, smarter resource manageme
