Mercy Hospital

Join HCW Board member Dr. Carol McIntosh and the Mercy Hospital staff as they go on medical outreach to a village to care for mothers and babies. Saving lives in Sierra Leone Mercy Hospital was founded in response to the desperate need for health care in Sierra Leone. Mercy has been administering quality care in Bo since 2007 and has extended its services via outreach clinics to 55 villages surrounding Bo. Mercy Hospital is currently a 26 bed primary care hospital in Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone which provides vital, life saving care to over 10,000 patients each year. When an epidemic level Ebola outbreak devastated the already fragile health care system in 2014, it left women and babies especially vulnerable. Despite the challenges caused by the crisis, Mercy has continued to serve Bo and the surrounding villages, annually providing care to more than 10,000 patients. The hospital has made great strides, earning the trust of the community as a provider of excellent health care for all, regardless of ability to pay. Health care is not free in Sierra Leone, and people are turned away from most hospitals if they cannot afford to pay, but Mercy treats all regardless of their ability to pay. HCW wholeheartedly supports Mercy’s mission to improve infant, child, and maternal health through holistic, community-focused care. We applaud Mercy’s data-driven health care programs, and the focus on professional training and staff development to better serve the Bo community.