Three-day training empowers nurses, prevents patient harm Posted on Oct 14, 2021 Mental disturbances from delirium are usually temporary, but they can be life-threatening—which is why it’s critical to recognize and diagnose the condition. At PIH-supported J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital, 16 nurses recently received delirium and agitation training and are Read more…
Patient living with schizophrenia receives care, restored to family through innovative partnership Posted on Oct 12, 2021 In 2019, Ma-Kebbeh (pseudonym) began to show signs of schizophrenia. She talked to herself, refused to eat, and experienced hallucinations. According to her, strange things were happening. “There was blood on the curtains Read more…
PIH working with health officials in Liberia, Sierra Leone as Ebola reemerges in Guinea Posted February 23, 2021 Six years ago, Partners In Health began its work in Liberia and Sierra Leone at the height of West Africa’s historic Ebola outbreak. PIH heeded the call of governments in Liberia and Read more…
The centres offer contraception methods to prevent unplanned pregnancies and STIs, individual counselling sessions, and social support Over the past two years, 20-year-old Comfort Cheebo has never missed an appointment for her birth control shots, which are injected every three months. That’s because she doesn’t want an unplanned pregnancy to Read more…
Ulysse, PIH’s COO, talks about social medicine, crisis response, and his hopes for the future of global health In a room full of people, Dr. Patrick Ulysse is usually among the last to speak. He sits, cross-legged, taking notes and listening with his whole body. He chooses his words carefully Read more…
PIH Liberia psychosocial worker Helena Wesley is on a mission to help people who are “lost” and on the streets in her native Maryland County People struggling with mental health conditions who have stopped receiving treatment or taking medication—and as a result have seen their conditions worsen and may be Read more…
Faster registration and better access to medical records are streamlining care at the rural hospital, and are hallmarks of PIH’s multi-country effort to improve how health data is collected, stored and used.
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…