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From left to right, Sisters Hospitallers´ superior in Monrovia Sr Florence Adevor, Sr Barbara Brilliant and Sr Encarnacion Gonzalez.

09 Sep SBMHC will provide internships to students from Mother Patern College

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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...

09 Sep “Aita Menni´s legacy”, on Spanish TV

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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...

Dr. Benjamin L. Harris, president of the LCPS, and Sr Florence Adevor, superior of Sisters Hospitallers in Monrovia.

05 Sep The SBMHC will host a psychiatry residency program of the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons

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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...

03 Sep The Carter Center donates equipments for our rehabilitation activities

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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...

Mikel Tellaeche (right) and Ato Kwamena (left), with representatives of The Carter Center.

02 Sep 4 admissions and 4 discharges in august

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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

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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

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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”

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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...

Sister Mary with her birthday cake.

02 Aug The Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center welcomes 3 new patients

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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.

Activities at the Saint Benedict Menni Mental Health Center in Monrovia, Liberia

01 Jul The Carter Center covers Unit needs worth USD 600

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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...