Still now access to health care services is still poor in most parts in Sierra Leone.

People in interior districts hardly get better treatment or sometimes treatment is even not available. Not everywhere are government health care clinics where people can be treated for several illnesses with the right type of medicines.

It is a challenge many sick people face in communities across the country.

In Waterloo, for example, only one government hospital is serving a population of over one million. Private clinics are also not many in Waterloo.

Only a few pharmacies could be seen around but only at the Tombo market with some lacking complete storage of medicines in the shelves that could cure almost all types of illnesses affecting patients.

Because Waterloo government hospital is too small now to serve many residents and with lack of other additional hospitals, local veteran doctors in Waterloo are making from the sick people big money for attending their private health clinics.

With these private ones running up only few of the nurses prescribing treatments to patients are qualified enough and these clinics are very expensive.

Sierra Leone is the most seriously affected country in health care systems in West Africa. Since the Ebola epidemic ravaged the country between 2014-15 killing many people including some senior professional nurses and doctors, the country is still struggling to have some trained medical doctors, surgeons, etc. The Ebola virus has also left hospitals ill-equipped with few workers, medical logistics medicines, ambulances, hospital beds are etc, in the country.

With these problems of shortages in medicines and treatment equipment together with only few running up private health care facilities in the country and the many ill-equipped pharmacies with unqualified health care pharmacies sellers, access to medical services by patients is not only a problem but it represents a big risk in Sierra Leone.