Connaught Hospital Explained

Connaught Hospital is the principal adult referral hospital in Sierra Leone.^[1] ^[2]

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 Maternity 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^[3]
William Broughton Davies (1831–1906), first West African to qualify as a medical doctor^[4]
Arthur Farquhar Stuart (1927–2002), consultant physician^[5]
William Robert Priddy (1926–2003), medical practitioner and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists^[6] ^[7]
William Renner (1846–1917), oncologist and Assistant Surgeon-General during the colonial era^[8]

Web site: Connaught Hospital – King's Sierra Leone Partnership . kslp.org.uk . King’s Sierra Leone Partnership . 8 November 2018.
Web site: Connaught Hospital . www.electives.net . The Electives Network . 8 November 2018 . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20181108184441/https://www.electives.net/hospital/5652/preview . 8 November 2018 . dead .
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