News about needs in Liberia
New updates to the LMAF 14 bedroom Medical Center in the Township of Dixville, Monsterrado County, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa
Working on the new Ambulance Garage.
Preparing the floor for tile.
Preparing the floor for tile.
Plastering the floor.
LMAF 14 bedroom Medical Center in the Township of Dixville, Monsterrado County, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa is nearing completion.
On January 24th 2013 our first shipment to Liberia went out. The shipping freighter is expected to reach Liberia in mid March 2013.
Napoleon will be visiting Liberia to acommpany the shipment to its desitnation in Nimba.
A special thank you to all the people who made this shipment possible.
From right to left: Napoleon Gbalah, Sue Meland, Tina Blackett, and Diana Keilian
Refugees resting after a long journey
After hiding out in the forest for two weeks, this family from the Ivory Coast crossed the river that separates their troubled homeland from Liberia’s Nimba County, then
paused before resuming a journey they hope leads to safety. Ivory Coast has been
convulsed by months of post-election strife that has forced hundreds of thousands of
people to seek sanctuary elsewhere.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting a
Ministry of Health hospital in Abidjan, which is plagued by violence and shortages of
medicines and other supplies, and in a number of areas throughout the country where
people displaced by fighting have settled temporarily. Many cannot reach the care they
need, however. “It is critical for patients to have access to health facilities,” said Mego
Terzian, MSF emergency coordinator. “MSF medical teams, who strictly adhere to the
principles of impartiality and neutrality, must be able to care for patients, regardless of
their affiliation.”
In Liberia, MSF teams are supporting health centers close to the border with Ivory
Coast and operating mobile clinics and a medical facility in the Bahn refugee camp. As
of early March, some 70,000 Ivorian refugees had been registered in Nimba County.
“People are afraid and do not speak of returning,” said Helga Ritter, MSF coordinator in
Liberia. “And they fear for those who have remained in Ivory Coast.” – Doctors Without Boarders, 2011
Counselor Isaac Wonasue lost an adult son last year (2008). The young man was employed at a local bank. He was awarded a grant to study for advanced degree abroad. Within days of leaving Liberia, he contracted a mysterious abdominal illness. Again, he was taken to a local emergency room and died shortly in the hospital.
Mr. George Geffie lost a daughter to childbirth at a local hospital. The young lady gave birth to a baby boy followed by bleeding. The bleeding was never stopped. She died one year later after more than one month of continuous hospitalization accompanied by frequent transfusion of several pints of blood.
Mr. Kennedy Gaysue died in a local hospital of alleged complications of asthma three years ago. He was taken to the hospital ER (emergency room) by his family. Given his symptoms at the time, his wife reported to the staff that he had history of asthma. Lacking basic equipment at the hospital, Kennedy’s family was asked to bring in his own nebulizer from home. He stayed a day in the hospital and died the following night.