This year’s world Mental Health day celebration was focused on suicide prevention. We at the Step Down Mental rehabilitation center in Liberia joined students of the Immaculate Conception Catholic School through health education. About 120 students from grade 3 - 8 were assembled at the...
Maria Josefa Recio Mental Health Unit welcomed 3 new patients and discharged 6 during October. Our rehabilitation Unit shelters 20 women at this moment, and the total amount of patients who have benefitted from our care facility is of 90. Thirty-eight patients reported for follow-up last month...
Saint Mary´s Cathedral in Vitoria was, in October 1st, the first temple to held the charity concerts organized by We Are Like You this Autumn in the three capitals of the Basque Country. Men´s Easo Chorus, from San Sebastian, offered a concert which comprised 18 songs...
Our sewing and crafts sessions continue as patients are taking through ways of learning how to sew with the machines given to us by The Carter Center. It has not been quite easy but there have been some improvements. Mondays and Fridays are scheduled for sewing...
World Health Organization established October as Breast Cancer Awareness month, an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease and raise support for the awareness, early detection and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease. St. Benedict Menni Health Centre, in collaboration with the Step Down...
Maria Josefa Recio Mental Health Unit welcomed 4 new patients and discharged 3 during September, as well as several women gone for trial parole, a temporary test in which patients leave the Unit from some days to live in their communities. From the total number of...
Saint Benedict Menni Health Center and Mother Patern College of Health Sciences have signed a memorandum of understanding which will provide internships in our center to students of Nursing and Social Work. Not only is the mission of Sisters Hospitallers to attend and rehabilitate people with mental illness, but...
Spanish Television program "People of God" broadcasted yesterday "Aita Menni´s legacy", which explains the history of Aita Menni Hospital and shows the work done there in the fields of mental health, intellectual impairment, brain injury and care of the elderly. (In Spanish) El...
The Saint Benedict Menni Health Center and the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS) have signed a memorandum of understanding for launching a psychiatry residency program in our healthcare facility. The program will start in September and will last three years. It will use the Step Down Unit at the SBMHC...
Representatives of The Carter Center in Liberia recently came to the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center to bring equipments and materials for our therapeutic activities. The list of deliveries include three sewing machines, fabrics to ellaborate clothes, needlework materials, office supplies and a printer. The delegation...
