02 Aug Ato Kwamena (psychiatric nurse): “This job is all about passion and dedication”
Ato Kwamena Sagoe is a mental health nurse from Ghana. At the moment he is working at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Centre in Monrovia after passing through one of the Sisters hospitals in Ghana where he had his psychiatry affiliation. Tell us about yourself. I come...
02 Aug The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center welcomes 3 new patients
The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center in Monrovia welcomed 3 new patients in July as part of the We Are Like You program, which has taken care of 82 women with mental illness since its opening in November, 2017.
01 Jul The Carter Center covers Unit needs worth USD 600
We are very happy to announce that the meeting we had in May with Benedict Dossen, the representative of The Carter Center in Liberia, has started to come to fruition. The foundation lead by the former US president Jimmy Carter has decided to support the...
01 Jul Two new admissions in June
Two new patients were admitted in June at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center and 8 were discharged. Our facility shelters 18 women currently. Seventy eight women have been admitted so far, since the opening of the center in November, 2017. Sixty nine were discharged...
17 Jun Spain public TV broadcasts “Hospitallers, light amogst shadows”, filmed at Aita Menni
Spain public TV TVE broadcasted last Sunday, in its La 2 channel, a documentary on Aita Menni, the center of Sisters Hospitallers that joined forces with Sisters Hospitallers in Monrovia to launch the We Are Like You project and the Saint benedict Menni Mental Health Center.
29 May Two new patients arrived at the Mental Health Center in May
In May, The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center received two new patients, bringing the total number of women treated in the María Josefa Recio Unit at this time to 22.
09 May Changes in the care team lead: prestigious Dr. Benjamin Harris joins WALY
Since last January, a 100%-african takes care of the patients at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center as psychatrist Marta Menendez and nurse Cecilia Alvarez went back to Spain after a year working at the Sisters Hospitallers´ facility in Monrovia. The leader of the care...
09 May The Carter Center visits the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center
The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center welcomed recently Benedict Dossen, Mental Health Program Lead at The Carter Center, to see up close our Maria Josefa Recio Unit and the Sisters Hospitallers´ Health Center. During the visit, Mr. Dossen and our Director of Health Programs, Mikel...
26 Apr The dirt road to the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center, paved
Finally, the dirt Pipeline road that leads to the Saint benedict Menni Health Center has been covered with tarmac. After many petitions to the authorities made by our representatives in every chance we had, the dirt road full of potholes and bumps got paved. This is a...