Regarding progress made in providing free health-care to pregnant women and children under five, former British prime minister Tony Blair met Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma.
"The idea is that if you provide the health care free, more people will access the service and more children and mothers will stay alive," Blair told AFP on a visit to Rokupa Hospital in the capital.
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On the last leg of a three nation trip to Africa, Blair is in the west African state as part of his African Governance Initiative (AGI), which assists countries to develop their private sector and improve governance.
Blair has also discussed investments and development with Koroma and other stakeholders.
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A nurse at the hospital said experiments on free health care showed that "40 mothers had used the service (per) year when it was paid for as against 40 a month when payment was waived."
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