THE World Health Organisation (WHO) says health facilities in Sierra Leone refugee camps might collapse under the strain of large numbers of refugees returning back across the border from troubled Guinea. The WHO said a new influx of refugees, spurred by the crisis in Guinea, would be “a step too far” for health facilities in already overcrowded refugee camps in Sierra Leone. It said both health clinics in the camps and local health facilities in Sierra Leone were struggling to provide care to a rapidly growing number of refugees. The southeastern town of Kenema had absorbed over 10 000 people in six weeks, while the population of a camp in Waterloo, near Freetown, had more than doubled in the past month, it said. The number of Sierra Leonan refugees in Guinea is estimated at around 350 000. – AFP