02 Sep 4 admissions and 4 discharges in august

August brought 4 admissions to the Step-Down Unit of the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center, and we happily saw 4 patients being discharged. One client was re-admitted after she relapsed. This month had a total number of 20 women currently receiving treatment, and a whooping number of...

02 Sep MSF will refer patients from their centers to our Mental Health Unit

A delegation from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) headed by Saima Zai –Activity coordinator– and Hyppolite Kalala –Project coordinator– came to visit our center on August 23. They knew firsthand the activities we do and the approach that is carried out of mental illness, to start referring patients from their centers to our facility.

02 Aug Representatives of Catholic Relief Services visit us at the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center

A group of around 15 representatives of the US organization Catholic Relief Services (CRS) came to visit us at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center in Monrovia.

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...

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...