Robert-Lee Dahn’s successful stay in a precautionary observation center for COVID-19 in Maryland County, Liberia, has enabled him to safely reunite with his family, rejoin his community, and improve local perceptions about quarantining during the pandemic. Dahn, 43, is a regular volunteer in the non-communicable disease clinic at J.J. Dossen Read more…
The 2010 Haiti earthquake hit, and offers of in-kind donations came pouring in overnight. The need was unthinkable, and as charitable response grew, PIH staff quickly set up space in Miami and Port-au-Prince to stage shipments and manage stock of orthopedic equipment, IV fluid, wound care supplies, and many other Read more…
In collaboration with Liberia’s Ministry of Health, National Public Health Institute, and Maryland County Health Team, Partners In Health Liberia is operating a 26-bed quarantine centre in the coastal city of Harper, supporting the government’s COVID-19 response across Maryland County in Liberia’s southeast. The centre will accommodate people who have traveled from high-risk Read more…
Dr. Mary Yang, from Toronto, ON, completed her psychiatry residency at University of Toronto in June 2019. After residency, she began a fellowship with Partners In Health, whose work she had followed since high school, and went to Liberia as PIH’s 2019-2020 Dr. Mario Pagenel Global Mental Health Delivery Fellow. Read more…
As Liberians celebrate Mother’s Day throughout May, on different dates according to different religious leaders and churches, one new mother in particular is thankful for her first child and newfound joy. Because for Jacqueline Bedell, 23, motherhood did not come easy. Bedell was six months pregnant when she visited Pleebo Read more…
Construction has begun on a new emergency care facility that will dramatically improve care and services at Pleebo Health Center in Liberia—so much so, Joseph Lusaka said, that it will feel like a long-held, angry stare finally is looking elsewhere. “We are committed to giving patients the health care they need Read more…
Partners In Health employs or supports nearly 18,000 staff members in 11 countries around the world. More than 60 percent of those invaluable staffers are women, filling vital roles at all levels of the organization. In honour of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated March 8 and this year has a theme of Each Read more…
When Dr. Tebo Buduo, a young Liberian physician from Monrovia, heard he’d be doing his medical internship in remote southeastern Liberia, he felt some apprehension. Maryland County is some 250 miles from the Liberian capital—a journey that can easily take two days in the rainy season, when dense, orange mud Read more…
Pregnancy and childbirth are often considered major life moments to celebrate, but they pose the risks of disability or death for millions of women who lack access to basic health care in marginalized communities. Partners In Health strives to address these inequalities by working with midwives–often expectant mothers’ most trusted Read more…
Habibatu Alu, a 42 year-old certified midwife, has been working at Pleebo Health Center in southeastern Liberia since 2011. Scroll down for scenes from a typical day. Article originally posted on pih.org See how the team in Liberia is using Kangaroo Care to help premature infants survive and thrive, despite Read more…
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