{"id":19808,"date":"2017-08-28T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/?p=19808"},"modified":"2017-08-31T17:57:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T17:57:10","slug":"a-team-from-aita-menni-hospital-arrives-to-monrovia-to-start-preparing-the-assistance-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/a-team-from-aita-menni-hospital-arrives-to-monrovia-to-start-preparing-the-assistance-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"A team from Aita Menni Hospital arrives to Monrovia to start preparing the assistance activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the next start of the <strong>Step Down Unit program<\/strong>, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, the National Catholic Health Council and the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center, a team of Aita Menni Hospital composed by its CEO, Mikel Tellaeche, psichiatrist Marta Men\u00e9ndez and nurse Cecilia Alvarez moved to Monrovia to start with the preparations prior to the beginning of the assistance activity.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We met with the Grant Hospital, the only psychiatric center in the country with few human and technical resources, to try to establish the inclusion criteria to refer patients to the Benedict Menni Mental Health Center within the Step Down Unit program. The Grant was represented by Mrs. Mamuyan M Cooper \u2013Director\u2013, the NCHC was represented by Mrs. Mary Bropleck \u2013Executive Director\u2013, Sr. Florence Adevor Superior of Monrovia\u00b4s Sisters House and representatives of Aita Menni Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital-716x537.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting at the Grant Hospital\" width=\"716\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital-716x537.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170816-Reunio\u0301n-en-Grant-Hospital.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also had the opportunity to meet with the Ministry of Health, where the Memorandum of Understanding was signed for the development of the Step Down Unit program at Saint Benedict Menni\u00a0Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit-716x537.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting at the Ministry of Health\" width=\"716\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit-716x537.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170817-Reunion-MOH-firma-del-MoU-Step-Down-Unit.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0Samsom K. Arzoaquoi \u2013Assistant Minister, Preventive Services\u2013 chaired the meeting, accompanied by Angie Tarr, Coordinator of the Technical Mental Health Coordination Committee. On behalf of NCHC attended by Sr. Barbara Brilliant and Mary Bropleck. Dr. Arzoaquai gave an emotional welcome to the two Aita Menni professionals who are going to move to Monrovia thanking them first for their decision to come, their devotion\u00a0and also asked them to be patient\u00a0when\u00a0trying to bring two very different realities closer, but both very necessary for the improvement of health services in Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>After the meeting we had the opportunity to greet Minister Bernice T. Dahn, who showed her gratitude to\u00a0Sisters Hospitallers for the effort and collaboration in the development of mental health programs.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we had the chance\u00a0to meet with <a title=\"The Carter Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cartercenter.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Carter Center<\/a> in Liberia for mental health training programs. We were with Dr. Janice Cooper, Director of Mental Health Projects, and have the opportunity to know about their training programs, where we can collaborate well with their students or participate through our professionals displaced to Liberia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170819-Reunio\u0301n-Carter-Center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-19824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170819-Reunio\u0301n-Carter-Center-716x698.jpg\" alt=\"Meeting with The Carter Center\" width=\"716\" height=\"698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170819-Reunio\u0301n-Carter-Center-716x698.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170819-Reunio\u0301n-Carter-Center-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170819-Reunio\u0301n-Carter-Center-700x682.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170819-Reunio\u0301n-Carter-Center.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the next start of the Step Down Unit program, sponsored by the Ministry of Health, the National Catholic Health Council and the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center, a team of Aita Menni Hospital composed by its CEO, Mikel Tellaeche, psichiatrist Marta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":19820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-are-like-you-en-en"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19835,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19808\/revisions\/19835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearelikeyou.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}