Facebook Twitter Pinterest About 25% of disabled people in Sierra Leone are amputees who were wounded in the civil war. The mental health toll that Ebola exacted ? depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder ? was massive. For those working in the mental health sector, this is not the way things were supposed to be. In Freetown, Sevalie hopes the enthusiasm around mental health services will continue. Photograph: Tanya Bindra/AP?Many of these programmes were excellent,? says Dr Florence Baingana, who works for the World Health Organisation?s Sierra Leone office.

The government?s policies around babies born to refugee women have also led to an unusual legal sophistry. Doctors refused to discharge the baby from hospital, stating the Nauru detention centre was not a safe environment for her. The price of `stopping the boats`: abusing asylum-seekers and shaming our country | Mark Isaacs Read moreThe policy has led to extraordinary circumstances on the island for pregnant refugee women. But the Australian government has said that she must deliver her baby on Nauru, saying there are ?comprehensive? medical services on the island. The Guardian has confirmed the woman remains on Nauru, despite medical transfer flights leaving the island this week.