Sierra Leone-China Nursing Training Centre Concludes Its Series of Training Programmes
…Spreading Expertise Overseas, Forging Friendship Between Nations
By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay
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The closing session of the two-month-long training programme hosted by the Sierra Leone-China Nursing Training Centre was successfully held at the Sierra‑Leone-China Friendship Hospital. Forty nursing backbones from five Sierra Leone-based hospitals took part in the full programme, featuring lively classroom discussions and active participant interaction.
Focusing on local clinical nursing challenges and the diagnosis and treatment needs of prevalent diseases in Sierra Leone, the closing session opened with a special lecture delivered by Nurse-in-Charge Wei Tao from Hunan Provincial Cancer Hospital. Her presentation, Construction and Practice of Safety-Culture System in Anaesthesia-Recovery Nursing, shared standardised workflows, safety-management frameworks and real-world clinical experience in anaesthesia‑recovery nursing. She introduced proven, advanced Chinese concepts and practical standards for anaesthesia-recovery care to Sierra Leone, helping to continuously improve peri-operative nursing safety locally.
Subsequently, Associate Professor Sheng Jie from Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, gave an on‑site lecture entitled Nursing Care for Common Cardiovascular Diseases. She elaborated on key points for condition observation, risk-prevention strategies, health-management models and complication-prevention measures for hypertension, diabetes and other prevalent chronic illnesses. The lecture helped fill local technical gaps in chronic-disease and cardiovascular-specialty nursing. Closely aligned with grassroots clinical practice, it carries strong practical guiding value.
The training programme won high recognition and enthusiastic participation from Sierra Leonean nursing staff. Local head nurse Fonti Kargbo delivered a mini-lecture sharing insights on nursing assessment; Ms. Massah, Director of the Nursing Department at the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital, gave a presentation on standardised nursing‑document‑writing protocols. At the end of the session, trainee representatives including Abubakarr from the Sierra Leone‑China Friendship Hospital and Josephine from Rokupa Government Hospital shared their learning reflections. They expressed deep appreciation for this precious learning opportunity, noting that the curriculum was well-grounded, concept driven and highly rewarding. The Sierra Leone-China Nursing Training Centre has built a profound communication bridge and fostered precious bilateral friendship. Many participants also sincerely voiced their aspiration for future study visits to China.
Upon conclusion of the training, Associate Professor of Nursing Tan Yan from Hunan Provincial Cancer Hospital, Director of the Sierra Leone-China Nursing Training Centre, presented official completion certificates endorsed by the Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone to all participants, marking the successful close of this systematic nursing‑training round.
Drawing on limited on-site resources of the Sierra Leone-China Friendship Hospital and overcoming operational difficulties such as frequent water and power outages, the Centre adopted a dual-track teaching model: online cloud-based lectures by Chinese domestic experts combined with on-site hands-on tutoring by members of the Chinese medical-aid team. The curriculum covers eight core training modules: fundamental nursing, critical-care nursing, infectious-disease nursing, chronic-disease-management nursing, and appropriate traditional Chinese-medicine techniques. It has built a comprehensive, multi-level and specialised overseas-nursing-talent development system. Through systematic lectures, hands-on practical tutoring and regular professional-exchange activities, the project is committed to cultivating a competent, well-managed, local nursing workforce that will stay and serve Sierra Leone. Held in the 2026 China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges, this series of training activities serves as a vivid example of people-to-people health-sector cooperation between China and Sierra Leone, writing a warm chapter for deepening China-Africa friendship.
Since its launch, the programme has won full recognition and high praise from leaders of the Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone, the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone, and the Hunan Provincial Health Commission. The Ministry of Health of Sierra Leone specifically highlighted that the Nursing Training Centre has made outstanding contributions to elevating the overall standard of local nursing services. Beyond enhancing Sierra Leone’s clinical-nursing capacity and specialty-care performance, the project further deepens practical health-sector cooperation and consolidates traditional friendship between Sierra Leone and China.
