Connaught Hospital is the principal adult referral hospital in Sierra Leone.

Connaught Hospital was opened in 1912 by the Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur. President Kabbah re-opened the hospital on May 5, 2006, alongside the Princess Christian Missionary Hospital (PCMH).

Notable doctors and herbalists

• John Augustus Abayomi-Cole – medical doctor and herbalist

• Robert Wellesley Cole (1907–1995), general surgeon and first West African to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

• William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), first West African to qualify as a medical doctor

• Arthur Farquhar Stuart (1927–2002), consultant physician

• William Robert Priddy (1926–2003), medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

• William Renner (1846–1917), oncologist and Assistant Surgeon-General during the colonial era

Developments

The UK government and Sierra Leone government commissioned a improved public laboratory in the hospital to improved public health in the country .

Director

The chief medical director of the hospital Dr. Mark I. Kapuwa.

See also

• 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone

References