AT A TWO DAY NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
                            OF A NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE IN SIERRA LEONE, AT THE MIATTA
                                         CONFERENCE CENTR WEDNESDAY 24TH JUNE 2009

MR. CHAIRMAN
HONOURABLE VICE PRESIDENT
MY LORD, CHIEF JUSTICE
HON MINISTERS OF GOVERNMENT
HONOURABLE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR CORPS,
THEIR WORSHIPS, THE MAYORS OF FREETOWN, BO, KENEMA, MAKENI, KOIDU-NEW SEMBEHUN AND BONTHE
DEVELOMENT PARTNERS
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

President Ernest Bai Koroma today chaired the plenary session of the General Assembly of the African Union summit in Sirte, Libya.

President Ernest Bai Koroma today graced the occasion of the formal opening of a two-day consultative conference for the
establishment of a national social health insurance in Sierra Leone, organised by the National Social Security And Insurance
Trust (NASSIT) in collaboration with the Ministry of Employment and Social Security and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.
Below is the full text of the keynote speech delivered by the President at the Miatta Conference Centre in Freetown.