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...
Mary's Meals, an international NGO that fights child hunger in 18 underprivileged countries, including Liberia, has been awarded the 2023 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord. Mary's Meals provides meals to nearly 2.5 million children every day, and it does so in schools, which has a...
The month of August has brought us a slightly higher number of new patients than usual. Five women have been admitted to our Mental Health Unit to begin treatment, to which we have added two women who had already been with us and who have...
The Government of Liberia, through the National Steering Committee for the Youth-at-Risk Program, has launched a rehabilitation program for youngsters with drug abuse disorders, in which 105 young people from Monrovia —88 males and 17 females— have voluntarily registered. The young people have been admitted to...
Music therapy session has been the all time favorite of the residents. This month has been even more fun as each client was asked to sing or dance their favorite song whiles the therapist played the instrument. This exercise was very entertaining and relaxing. Emanda, the...
