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Makeni Hospital Library

Key Information

Location: Makeni Regional Government Hospital, Bombali District, Sierra Leone


Opening hours: 8am - 5pm, Monday to Friday


Library staff: Sheik Umar Sesay (Librarian), Fatmata M Kamara (Library Administrator), Mariatu Kamara (Library Assistant), Komba A Momoh (AHL Library Coordinator)


Library members: Hospital staff, clinical students on placements at Makeni Regional Government Hospital, and students and academic staff from local healthcare training colleges


Date library opened: March 2013


Makeni 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)


Makeni Hospital Library has its own Facebook page: www.facebook.com/makenihospitallibrary/

Looking Ahead

We have started construction on a much needed Resource Centre at Makeni Regional Government Hospital. The centre will allow the library to grow and diversify the access offered to medical information. 


Will you help us fund a small computer suite in the resource centre?

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Resource Centre completed!

The newly constructed Resource Centre at Makeni Government Hospital was officially opened in March 2021! This wonderful space has much more room for the books and for readers. It also has a group study space, and toilet facilities.

Thank you to all who participated in the opening ceremony! We look forward to the contribution this new building will make to the future of healthcare library services in Makeni.

Borrowing overview

2023

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

January

34 books borrowed, 33 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Essential Clinical Anatomy
  • BNF
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine

February

59 books borrowed, 60 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Surgical Care at the District Hospital
  • Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery
  • BNF



2022

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

January

51 books borrowed, 62 visitors

Most popular item:

  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children


February

57 books borrowed

Most popular item:

  • Clinical skills for OSCEs

March

57 books borrowed, 102 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Obstetrics in remote settings

April

46 books borrowed, 102 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Physical examination and health assessment

May

40 books borrowed, 48 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Nelsons essentials of paediatrics
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children
  • Physical examination and health assessment

June

65 books borrowed, 116 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Churchill's pocketbook of surgery
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

July

54 books borrowed, 46 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Pocketbook of hospital care for neonates and infants

August

40 books borrowed, 60 visitors

September

54 books borrowed, 74 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Clinical anatomy
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children

October

69 books borrowed, 50 visitors

November

57 books borrowed, 88 visitors

Most popular item:

  • Churchill's Pocketbook of Surgery

December

17 books borrowed, 12 visitors

2021

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

January

3 books borrowed

(moving to resource centre)

February

4 books borrowed

(moving to resource centre)

March

16 books borrowed

(moving to resource centre)

April

Closed

May

No data

June

No data

July

33 books borrowed, 59 visitors

August

50 books borrowed, 104 visitors

Most popular items:

  • Nelsons essentials of paediatrics
  • Lecture notes in tropical medicine
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children

September

61 books borrowed, 90 visitors

Most popular items:

  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children
  • Anatomy and Physiology in health and illness
  • Nelsons essentials of paediatrics


2020

January

40 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual

February

27 books borrowed

March

7 books borrowed

April

10 books borrowed

May

30 books borrowed

June

42 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual

July

46 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual

August

41 books borrowed

Most popular items:

  • ETAT+ Manual
  • Pharmacology for nursing care
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children

September

58 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines
  • Medical surgical nursing

October

47 books borrowed

Most popular items:

  • ETAT+ Manual
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children

November

48 books borrowed

Most popular item:

ETAT+ Manual

December

25 books borrowed

Most popular:

ETAT+ Manual


2019

January

50 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 
  • Short Textbook of Public Health Medicine for the Tropics
  • Emergency Triage + ETAT

February

50 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Emergency Triage 
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine

March

47 books borrowed

April

40 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual

May

47 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual

June

36 books borrowed

July

28 books borrowed

August

5 books borrowed

September

3 books borrowed

October

26 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • ETAT+ Manual
  • Medical Microbiology

November

33 books borrowed

December

22 books borrowed

2018

January

50 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Bailliere's Nurses Dictionary 

February

20 books borrowed



March

N/A

No borrowing: due to election and visit by library administrator to Bo Library 

April

47 books borrowed



May

27 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Essential Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Obstetric and Gynaecology Ultrasound 

June

8 books borrowed

(ETAT+ Manual only) 

Library closed for updating of classification system

July

N/A

No borrowing: library closed for set-up of Kenema Hospital Library and completion of classification system update 

August

48 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • ETAT+ Manual 
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 

September

22 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • MSF Clinical Guidelines, 
  • Life Saving Skills Manual
  • Obstetrics in Remote Settings  


(Library partly closed due to library administrator study leave)

October

68 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • MSF Clinical Guidelines 
  • ETAT+ Manual
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children 

November

64 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • MSF Clinical Guidelines 
  • ETAT+ Manual


December

21 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children 
  • ETAT+ Manual 


2017

January

53 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children
  • Nursing and Midwifery: A Practical Approach
  • Myles Textbook for Midwives 

February

72 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • MSF Obstetrics in Remote Settings
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines
  • Family Planning 

March

73 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Microscopy of Tropical Diseases
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines 



April

52 books borrowed

Most popular books:

  • MSF Essential Drugs
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines 
  • Microscopy of Tropical Diseases
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children 

May

63 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines 

June

75 books borrowed

 Most popular: 

  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children 
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine
  • MSF Clinical Guidelines

July

33 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses 
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 
  • Pocketbook of Surgery
  • Practical Leadership and Management in Healthcare 

August

47 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • MSF Obstetrics in Remote Settings 
  • WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children
  • Surgery 

September

51 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • Myles Textbook for Midwives 
  • Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses 
  • Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care 
  • Life Saving Skills Manual 
  • Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery 
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 
  • Surgery 
  • Understanding Pharmacology 

October

50 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 

November

53 books borrowed

Most popular: 

  • British National Formulary
  • Clinical Medicine 
  • Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine 
  • Surgical Care at the District Hospital 

December

43 books borrowed

Most popular:

  • Anatomy and Physiology 

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