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Kenema Hospital Library

Key Information

Location: Kenema Government Hospital, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone


Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9am - 4pm


Library staff: Joel E Mbayoh (Library Administrator), Komba A Momoh (Library Coordinator)


Library members: Staff from Kenema Government Hospital, and students from Eastern Polytechnic and other healthcare training institutions on rotations. 


Date Library opened: Official opening November 2018 (opened to users July 2018)


Kenema Government Hospital and AHL successfully applied for books from Health Books International through the 2017 BMA Information Fund. These stock the library shelves, along with donated books from Oxford Book Transplant and a generous donation of resources from Book Aid International.


Kenema Hospital Library follows the borrowing and data recording systems described in the Manual: How to plant and grow a library (free to download from 'All downloads' page)

Looking Ahead

Your support is vital to establishing, supporting, and developing our current libraries, as well as opening opportunities to more locations. 


Do you enjoy reading? Have you benefited from access to good-quality information and study spaces? 


Are you passionate about improving healthcare systems? Would you be interested in twinning a library? Could you donate your time or resources to our mission to provide essential access to health information?


We want to hear from you!

Get Involved!

Borrowing Overview

2023

"visitors" refers to those library members who use the library to study, instead of taking books out

January

39 books borrowed, 23 visitors

Most popular item:

  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

February

35 books borrowed, 17 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Nutritional foundations and clinical applications


2022

"Visitors" refers to those library members who use the library to study, instead of taking a book out

January

28 books borrowed, 14 visitors

Most popular:

  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
  • Oxford Handbook of Infectious Disease and Microbiology
  • Principles of Biochemistry

February

33 books borrowed, 18 visitors

Most popular:

  • Oxford Handbook of Infectious Disease and Microbiology

March

33 books borrowed, 14 visitors

Most popular:

  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

April

34 books borrowed, 16 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Medical Surgical Nursing

May

24 books borrowed, 20 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Anatomy and physiology for nurses

June

36 books borrowed, 18 visitors

July

36 books borrowed, 18 visitors

August

20 books borrowed, 10 visitors

September

26 books borrowed, 13 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Medical Surgical Nursing

October

38 books borrowed, 17 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine
  • Laboratory diagnostic tests

November

37 books borrowed, 11 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Barasi's Human Nutrition
  • Oxford Handbook of Nutrition and Dietetics

December

19 books borrowed, 14 visitors

2021

"Visitors" refers to those library members choosing to study in the library, rather than taking books out

January

24 books borrowed, 13 visitors

Most popular:

  • Oxford handbook of infectious disease and microbiology

February

41 books borrowed, 16 visitors

Most popular:

  • Oxford handbook of infectious disease and microbiology

March

32 books borrowed, 15 visitors

Most popular:

  • Human physiology
  • Oxford handbook of infectious disease and microbiology

April

24 books borrowed, 11 visitors

May

27 books borrowed, 10 visitors

Most popular:

  • District laboratory practice in tropical countries
  • Saunders nursing guide to laboratory diagnostic tests

June

20 books borrowed, 10 visitors

July

29 books borrowed, 12 visitors

August

29 books borrowed, 12 visitors

Most popular:

  • Davidson's principles and practice of clinical medicine
  • Paediatric physical diagnosis

September

21 books borrowed, 10 visitors

2020

January

34 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • District Laboratory Practice

February

March

15 books borrowed

April

44 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • District Laboratory Practice in Tropical Countries
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

May

35 books borrowed

June

26 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Anatomy and physiology for nurses
  • Anatomy and physiology in health and illness

July

36 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Introduction to clinical examination
  • Laboratory and diagnostic tests
  • Medical surgical nursing

August

31 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Medical surgical nursing

September

26 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses
  • Manual of Basic Techniques

October

33 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Anatomy and Physiology: a complete introduction
  • Manual of basic techniques

November

31 books borrowed, 25 visitors

Most popular:

  • Oxford handbook of infectious diseases and microbiology

December

17 books borrowed, 10 visitors

2019

January

17 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice

February

13 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Paediatric Physical Diagnosis

March

30 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 
  • General and Systemic Pathology

April

37 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • ETAT+
  • General and Systemic Pathology

May

84 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • District Laboratory Practice for Developing Countries
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

June

46 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Tropical Medicine Microscopy

July

51 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

August

54 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Anatomy and physiology
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

September

41 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • District Laboratory Practice
  • Medical Surgical Nursing

October

56 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Medical Surgical Nursing
  • Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness

November

65 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • District Laboratory Practice
  • Tropical Medicine Microscopy

December

30 books borrowed

2018

September

15 books borrowed



October

35 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Essential Drugs 
  • Tropical Medicine Microscopy 

November

45 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • District Laboratory Practice
  • Anatomy and Physiology 

December

27 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • District Laboratory Practice 
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines 

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