A qualitative study examining the health system’s response to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone

• Hana Stone ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HS and EB are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Emma Bailey ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HS and EB are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Haja Wurie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Andrew J. M. Leather,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Justine I. Davies,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6834-1838

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• Håkon A. Bolkan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CapaCare, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Institute of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Department of Surgery, St. Olavs Hospital HF, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

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• Stephen Sevalie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Case Management Pillar, National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 34th Military Hospital, Wilberforce, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Daniel Youkee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Case Management Pillar, National COVID-19 Emergency Response Centre, Freetown, Sierra Leone

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• Divya Parmar

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: divya.parmar@kcl.ac.uk

  Affiliation King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7979-3140

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