On May 8, a delegation from the Benedict Menni Center had the opportunity to visit three of the centers where Médecins Sans Frontières provides mental health services in Monrovia. The delegation was formed by the Head of Programs of the Benedict Menni Center and CEO of...
On Thursday, May 9, the Minister of Health of Liberia, Dr. Louise M. Kpoto, and the Director of its Mental Health Unit, Dr. Moses Ziah II, among other officials of the Ministry of Health, received a delegation from the Benedict Menni Center, formed by the...
On May 8, a team from the Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Center held a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection of the Government of Liberia, Josephine Greaves, with whom they established the basis for a possible collaboration...
Recently we introduced you to Cris, a volunteer nurse who was helping us during January and February in the Mental Health Unit of the Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia. During the month of February, Cris coincided with another volunteer, Enrique Gonzalez, a psychologist who...
Cristina Bressel is a nurse from Madrid (Spain) who volunteered in our Mental Health Unit in January and February. She got her degree in Nursery in the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid and spiecialized in mental health nursery in the Hospital Universitario Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, where...
The Aita Menni Hospital welcomed yesterday several of the top international managers of Hikvision, provider of the video security system that, since 2022, has been operating in the Legal Psychiatry Unit and the Unit of Intellectual Disability with Behavioral Disabilities, and that allows to prevent...
The companies Ondoan, Hikvision and Hommax have donated a video surveillance system worth EUR 4,000 to the Mental Health Unit of the Saint Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia. Ondoan —through MCC Telecom— already contributed to the start of the project in 2017 with similar equipment. In...
The coordinator of the Mental Health Unit at St. Benedict Menni Health Center in Monrovia, Ato Kwamena Sagoe, was recently invited to be part of a group of professionals who, in a three-day workshop, drafted and revised the National Protocol for the Treatment of Substance...
Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States during Jimmy Carter's term of office, passed away in the United States on November 19th. Rosalynn Carter and her husband were the founders of The Carter Center, an international non-profit NGO that works in the field of...
This year's Mental Health Day was celebrated on 10 October under the slogan "Mental health is a universal human right", which emphasised the need for affordable, accessible and quality health care for people suffering from mental illness. To mark the occasion, the Unit organized a week...
