Health Minister Recognizes Managing Editor of Health Newspaper …For His Contributions to The Health Sector

The Minister of Health and Sanitation (MoHs), Dr. Demby has lavished praises and recognized on one of the hardworking young men in the health sector, Pastor Sinneh Kamara of Mortuary Evangelist Ministry who is also the Managing Editor of the Health Newspaper.
Dr. Demby described Sinneh as a committed and dedicated man in the course of serving humanity, noting that Mr. Sinneh Kamara and team decided over the years to voluntarily collect human remains in the streets of Freetown without waiting for anyone or hesitating for the law since he is willing to do the job of collecting deserted carcasses (dead bodies) in the street and bring them to the Connaught Hospital Mortuary Complex.
“Sometimes, Dr. Demby said, the Mortuary refrigerator is going on and off,” he stated and mentioned that after 40 days in cold room, Mr. Sinneh Kamara usually organized members of the burial team to voluntarily bury any remain of a destitute picked up from the streets. After 40 days without identification of a corpse by a family member, Minister Demby said, Sinneh Kamara would patiently bury those remains to avoid suffocating neighbours with pungent or strong smell.
According to the Minster, when someone dies in hospital, it’s the role and responsibility of the Ministry of Health to manage any ugly situation and buried them with respect and dignity.
Minister Demby recalled that they held a meeting in Parliament few years ago on how they should develop a Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). “The city has the responsibility to pick up bodies and preserved it before a dignified burial,” he said and further discussed that as a result of a warrant of arrest issued against Sinneh Kamara by the police hierarchy, he decided to lay down tools and stopped the burial of destitutes temporarily to safeguard his integrity and respect.
Dr. Demby emphasized that Mr. Sinneh Kamara have been in this selfless service to humanity for many years and he is still willing and very much passionate about giving dignified burials to unidentified human remains.
Dr. Demby condemned and debunked people who are spreading false information that Mr. Sinneh Kamara sold human parts, failing to recognize the risky and delicate situation involves in doing such a job.
The Minister also discussed that Sinneh Kamara is just helping voluntarily without asking or demanding for a dime.
The Minister pointed out that the main problem is that, MoHS is not mandated to collect dead bodies from the streets, simply because, he said, some carcasses have police concern and the Corona’s Office had to come and explain courses of death before health officials might touch or take the body for a dignified or respectful interment at a cemetery.
“This is something that needed the full cooperation of the Ministry of Health (MoH), Freetown City Council (FCC) and other lined institutions to institute or develop a Standard Operating Procedures on how to actualize the issue of destitute burials.
Describing the issue of destitute burial as a national concern, Dr. Demby warned that there is no value or need to point fingers on hardworking people, but lets us look for permanent solution to what he called a sad situation in the country.
He admonished all to stop the blame game and urged all to put hands on deck to fight the common enemy which is killing our precious souls of young drugs addicts.