Programs
Liberia: The Big Picture
Liberia is a West African nation, bordered by Sierra Leone to the west, Guinea to the north, and Ivory Coast to the east. Home to 4 million people, the nation embodies a 43,000-square-mile surface area. Struggling to accommodate the 4 million residents following the devastating effects of rampant civil wars that destroyed local economies and left 85% of the population living below the international poverty line, Liberia continues to reach for solutions that will improve the life and conditions of these people.
- With a fertility rate of 5.9 births per woman, the maternal mortality rate stood at 990 per 100,000 births in 2010.
- In 2007, 20.4% of children under the age of 5 were malnourished.
- In 2008, only 17% of the population had access to adequate sanitation facilities.
- Civil war strife ended in 2003 after destroying approximately 95% of the country’s health facilities.
Ebola brought national attention to the small African nation, with Liberia’s Ministry of Health, with support from the World Bank, the U.S. government, and UN agencies like the WHO, UNICEF, the U.N. Family Population Fund and the World Food Program, working in tandem to bring the number of Ebola cases down to zero. The coordination conducted vaccinations in all of the country’s 15 counties, with 600,000 infants receiving vaccinations, through the 47 vehicles and ambulances shipped in for the epidemic. Death benefits were paid, health workers were flown in, and international supplies were used to prevent further deaths after the 4,810 people in Liberia were killed by the disease.
TBCHC
Liberia’s Healthcare System needs all hands-on deck to bring it in line with 21st century practices and thinking, in order to generate the much-needed widespread improvements realized by the entire population. The Liberian healthcare system has been coping despite limited resources. We are hoping to join the effort to provide quality and sustainable healthcare within Liberia one community at a time.
Program Goals
Our organization is making strategic alliances with key players in a healthcare system. We’re working to align with:
- Hospitals
- Healthcare Associations
- Medical Colleges & Universities
- Pharmacies
We’re passionate about a multi-strategic effort to curate a country-wide system that is conducive to good health practices and sustainability moving forward.
Our programs include:
- Outpatient family medicine clinic: Our outpatient facility will include exam rooms, a physical therapy/occupational therapy room, an ophthalmology room, a dental room, and the list goes on.
- Inpatient labor & delivery and C-section suite: Our inpatient suite will contain labor and delivery rooms, postpartum rooms, nursery, Level II neonatal ICU, parental education room and more.
- Laboratory: Our lab will support both inpatient and outpatient testing with clinical pathology, hematology, immunology, chemistry, and so forth.
- Pharmacy: Accessible 24-7, the pharmacy will support both inpatient and outpatient services.
- Imaging center: Our imagining center will include an x-ray room, a mammography room, an ultrasound room, a DEXA scan room, and the list goes on.
- Community facilities: Will include adult literacy classes, trade training, a Prometric testing center, and other events.
- Residential quarters: Will include studio apartments for short term accommodation of traveling physicians, as well as apartments for senior living.
- Physical therapy: to provide rehabilitative services including physical, occupational and speech therapy to community members.
Services
Starting out with the development of our clinic, TBCHC will offer a variety of basic medical services that are required to maintain a healthy standard of living today.
- Sick Visits: This constitutes any kind of sick/illness concern visit.
- Annual Physical Exams: Annual physical exams will be administered to all interested.
- Prenatal Care: Available on a multi-visit basis, women will have access to quality prenatal care during their pregnancy and a continuation of care that includes their babies after delivery.
- Lab Services: Blood testing and other services will provide bigger medical pictures.
- Imaging: Depending on the imaging requirement, TBCHC will keep the cost as low as possible.
- Individual/Family Insurance: Access to affordable insurance plans for individuals and families of all sizes.
- Elderly Assistance: Not including the cost of medication, we’re developing an elderly support system.
- Physical therapy: to provide rehabilitative services including physical, occupational and speech therapy to community members.
