Samuel Kallon 
By Hassan I. Conteh
A number of German surgeons in currently at Hill Station in Freetown at the Choithram Memorial Hospital to be giving free surgical operations to patients.
They have been in the country since first week of January this year, and have carried on 40 surgeries to patients.
The German doctors have been in the country for a third time now with some having taken about forty years working at the Choithram Memorial Hospital in the country.
The Head of Choithram Hospital, Dr George introduced his colleague doctors from Germany.
“We want to wish you ( journalists and the audience) a happy and a prosperous 2025.”
“Our visiting team from Germany are here to offer free medical surgeries to patients.”
He said thanks in support and in guidance to Sierra Leone ambassador to Germany, Dr Baimba Mbayo, who, he said, was the one who initiated the charity scheme.
“Surgical operations on face burns and contracted hands of people can be done for free of charge. Patients should not pay a single cent for not only the surgeries but for follow up as well.”
Choitram Head, Dr George, who has been living in Sierra Leone for decades, told journalists, “our mission (Choithram) is always here to provide, from time to time, free medical services to the sick.”
Already, he went on, 40 surgeries have been done onto patients since the first week of January 2025; 53 surgeries were being administered to patients for the year 2023; 64 for the year 2024.
“Patients are screened properly,” he said.
The visiting doctors include: Mr Harish Agani, Dr Bernd Heidemam, Dr Nikoloz, Dr Lutz Gruhl and Professor Dr Bayo Aluko-Olukun from Nigeria who also shares Sierra Leonean lineage.
Dr Lutz Gruhl, who spoke to journalists in an exclusive television interview at the event on Wednesday 22nd January, 2025, said, “we are really grateful for coming here; we feel good to be here for the third time.”
“We can restore face burns, contracted hands and can treat those who can’t walk.”
Dr Mustapha Kabba, a Sierra Leone who had spent 14 years in Germany, said he felt so good to be giving back to his country’s health care sector.
He expressed government’s readiness in improving quality health care delivery being affordable to everyone including the very poor in Sierra Leone.
He said the setting up of the post graduate medical college at Wilberforce could create a way in the future a sustainability health care system in Sierra Leone.
