Hospital Director Br. Peter Lansana Dawoh has provided a comprehensive update on efforts of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital and its staff in fighting the third wave of the COVID Virus. The report contains information on donations received during the period from its partners, philanthropist and some agencies of the government of Liberia, including the office of the president. Below is a link to the full report.
The St. Joseph’s Catholic hospital has been present in Monrovia and admirably providing health care to Liberians for more than 50 years, even in the most difficult of times. The hospital is within a large complex comprising many different facilities to cover the essential medical and personnel services, and in order to be self-sufficient.
Continue readingPursuant to the implantation of the five years strategic plan of the hospital for infrastructure and development, the hospital lobbied with the Japanese Embassy for Liberia and Ghana to support the construction of an African kitchen and a two storey staff bungalow. Continue reading
An acute shortage of needed P.P.E and I.P.C supplies in the Liberian market, led the hospital to make a fervent S.O.S appeal for support in terms of gloves and gauzes to Probitas/Griffols, Spain, and the MAB Leadership of Sierra Leone.
Their responses helped to salvage the precarious situation that the hospital found herself. Finding these items was really challenging but due to their positive and timely response, the hospital maintained her services actively.
The St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital has completed renovation of the Isolation ward and has named the building the Granada Treatment Center. Continue reading
The management of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital on tuesday July 21, 2020, dedicated a new wing of the maternity named in honor of Dr. Samuel G. Bowman. The new maternity wing, which was constructed with support from Contribute Foundation, is named in honor of Dr. Samuel G. Bowman for his long standing service to the hospital which span over 35 years. Continue reading
Amidst the growing increase in the Corona Virus worldwide, with three (3) confirmed cases already in Liberia, St. Joseph Catholic Hospital has begun series of awareness and sensitization programs for staff and patients visiting the hospital. Several flyers were designed with a list of preventive measures outlined to help curtail the spread of the virus. Below are samples of the flyers that were printed and pasted at various strategic places in the hospital compound. Continue reading
In early 2016, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) established a research collaboration in Liberia with the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Hospital (SJCH) and the Liberia Medicines and Health Regulatory Authority (LMHRA). With funding from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, two ISGlobal-led projects started. Both aiming at building hospital and regulatory authority staff capacities to conduct research on infectious diseases. Continue reading
Research and development of preventive and therapeutic interventions for emerging pathogens have been difficult to maintain in the past once outbreaks come to an end.
In Liberia, much of the research on Ebola ended when the outbreak faded in 2016 even though sustained funding could have led to further the development of vaccine candidates and other therapies for Ebola. Continue reading
Mr Xisco Muñoz Espuig, a graduate in Sociology and Political Sciences and Consultant in International Cooperation visited Monrovia last 28th June to conduct lectures about the importance of the data in any research project. Continue reading
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed by Mr David Sumo (Liberia Medicines & Health Products Regulatory Authority Managing Director) and Brother Peter Lansana Dawoh (Saint Joseph Catholic Hospital Director) in a ceremony held June 26th 2019. The purpose of this meeting was to set the terms and understanding between the Liberian partners of the IGORCADIA project. Continue reading
A Spanish Television crew has launched a three part Documentary on medical facilities and Health Care delivery after visiting Liberia and Sierra Leone. The RTVE crew while in the two countries, covered happenings at the St. Joseph’s Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia and the St. John of God hospital in Lunsar, Sierra Leone. Continue reading
The IGORCADIA project started in December 2017 and is led by the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal) in collaboration with the NGO Juan Ciudad Foundation (FJC), the Liberian Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority (LMHRA) and the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Hospital (SJCH), in Monrovia, where all activities take place. One year on, the project, through its manager Dr. Cristina Munoz catalogs activities conducted in its first year. Continue reading
The IGORCADIA Project, which takes place in Monrovia, Liberia, in collaboration with the public institution “Regulatory Authority of Medicines and Health Products of Liberia” (LMHRA) and the Saint Joseph Catholic Hospital (SJCH), with the support of Juan Ciudad Foundation (FJC), is highly committed to promoting equal opportunities in science and research from a gender perspective among participating institutions. Continue reading
Dr. Cristina Munoz has shared her experience working at St. Joseph Catholic Hospital three months after arriving in Liberia as the head of the IGORCADIA PROJECT. Continue reading
Almost three years ago, shortly after the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, ISGlobal launched a project to build health research capacities in the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Hospital (SJCH) in Monrovia, in collaboration with the Juan Ciudad Foundation. Continue reading
The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research held a meeting in Cape Town (South Africa) last November 13th -14th 2018. Continue reading
A training on Financial Statements Format was organized by the St. Augustine Province of Africa for heads of finance of various centers with the aim of achieving the following: Find solution to financial challenges, work on the control of expenditures, apply procurement procedures and look at the weakness and strengths of the province. Continue reading
Just over one year after its conclusion, the SELeCT project has published its third article resulting from a series of activities aimed at strengthening research capacities in Liberia. The project, that started in February 2016 and ended in August 2017, was funded by the EDCTP and led by ISGlobal – an institution supported by “la Caixa” Foundation- in collaboration with the Juan Ciudad Foundation and the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Hospital (SJCH) in Monrovia. Continue reading
Improved Governance and Research Capacities in Diagnostic for infectious Diseases (IGORCADIA) of the Liberia Medicines and Health Product Regulatory Authority (LMHRA), afforded the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital through its nursing director Mrs. Christine Tarr-Attia, the opportunity to participate in a three days workshop on GCP-GCLP in Johannesburg, South Africa – June 12-14 2018. Continue reading
Friday July 20, 2018 was a day filled with mixed feelings and a few tears as four long serving staff of the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital were retired. Continue reading
After the Provincial Chapters of the St. Augustine Province-Africa and the St. Richard Pampuri Province in March, 2018 and following the subsequent appointments of the Provincial Counselors, Superiors, Formators and Directors of the two young and dynamic African Provinces, it was agreed that a joint leadership training would be organized for the appointed leaders in Africa before they could start their mandates. Continue reading
Liberia’s First Lady Madam Clar Weah on yesterday visited little Ama Geeplay at the St. Joseph Catholic in Monrovia. Madam Weah’s visit was upon the request of the Ministry of Gender who took up little Ama’s case since her both hands were burned by a family member in January of this year. Continue reading
A new playroom has been turned over to the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital management by Project Liberia Support. The playroom is to be used by children admitted to the pediatric ward for recreation during recovery. Continue reading
A staff of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital has expressed gratitude to management, after returning from Ghana, where he attended a three day workshop for Hospitals using the Patient Health Information System (PHIS). The training workshop which brought together representatives from all hospitals using PHIS was held in Kumasi, Ghana. Continue reading
The vice president of the Republic of Liberia His Excellency Joseph Nyumah Boakai visited the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital and made some donations in commemoration of his 73rd birthday celebration. Continue reading
A three days workshop was recently concluded at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital by ISGlobal, to mark the close of an eighteen month project titled Strengthening Laboratory Capacities for Clinical Trials on infectious diseases or SELeCT for short. Continue reading
A Team of doctors headed by Doctor Adel Guirguis is on a one week medical mission at St. Joseph Catholic Hospital. Continue reading
L-R Br. Moises, Br. Peter, Br. Jesus, Br. Pierre,Br. Benda & Br. Viadero
The management of the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital headed by Bro. Peter Lansana Dawoh, on Saturday unveiled a monument in honor of the fallen heroes and heroines of the hospital, who lost their lives during the Ebola crisis in 2014. Continue reading
Several construction projects are simultaneously ongoing at the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital in Congo Town, Monrovia. Continue reading
A team of nine doctors headed by Dr. Javier Salmen is currently carrying on surgery for women with Fistula at the St Joseph Catholic Hospital in Monrovia. The team, which consists of both surgeons and gynecologist, arrived on November 25, 2016, and is expected to be in the country for two weeks.
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Last month of July, fourteen selected staff members of SJCH, three members of the Liberian Medicines & Health Products Regulatory Authority (LMHRA) and one member of the ‘Stella Maris Polytechnic Mother Patern College of Health Sciences’received a four-day training on ‘Good Clinical Practices’ and ‘Good Laboratory Practices’ in biomedical research.The course is part of a European-funded project (SELeCT) that aims to buildinstitutional capacities to conduct clinical trials by training hospital personnel on clinical trial conduct, upgrading laboratory infrastructure, and building community trust in health research. Continue reading
Yesterday, August 2nd, our beloved Brother and Hospital Director Patrick Nshamdze died in ELWA Hospital in Monrovia at age 52, after 23 years of religious proffession.
Br Patrick, born in Cameroon, was tested Ebola positive on July 29, after being sick for two weeks. He had been previously tested on July 18, with a negative result.
All of us who form the family of the Saint Joseph´s Catholic Hospital and the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God ask for your prayers for his soul.
The outbreak of ebola in West Africa is the biggest in History, and it is the first time that affects several countries at the same time: Liberia, Guinea Conakry and Sierra Leona. First cases were detected in January 2014, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared oficially the epidemic in March.
From then on, cases of this disease –with a mortality rate over 90%– had increased, with 518 deaths up to date, which makes this epidemic the most serious, besides it being the first time that the disease outbreaks in this region. Previous known eruptions happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
Hospitals of the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of God in Sierra Leona and Liberia are taking care of patients with ebola, in coordination with the Ministries of Health, which count on scant resources and facilities to face this epidemic, and that is why it is so urgent to control and stop the progress of the disease.
Your help will serve to provide resources to these Hospitals that let them to take proper care of this emergency, allowing a better care for patients with ebola and for health workers and their families.
Donations to install an isolated area and buy specific medical stuff and disinfectant products for the right control and treatment of ebola.
Nowadays the vaccine is inexistent, hence the treatment is just symptomatic.
Because medical equipment required for treatment of ebola are expensive and our Hospitals in Liberia en Sierra Leona can´t afford them and are asking for help.
· St. Joseph Catholic Hospital de Monrovia (Liberia).
· St. John of God Hospital de Lunsar (Sierra Leona).
Hospital Director Br. Peter Lansana Dawoh has provided a comprehensive update on efforts of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital and its staff in fighting the third wave of the COVID Virus. The report contains information on donations received during the period from its partners, philanthropist and some agencies of the government of Liberia, including the office of the president. Below is a link to the full report.
The St. Joseph’s Catholic hospital has been present in Monrovia and admirably providing health care to Liberians for more than 50 years, even in the most difficult of times. The hospital is within a large complex comprising many different facilities to cover the essential medical and personnel services, and in order to be self-sufficient.
Continue readingPursuant to the implantation of the five years strategic plan of the hospital for infrastructure and development, the hospital lobbied with the Japanese Embassy for Liberia and Ghana to support the construction of an African kitchen and a two storey staff bungalow. Continue reading
An acute shortage of needed P.P.E and I.P.C supplies in the Liberian market, led the hospital to make a fervent S.O.S appeal for support in terms of gloves and gauzes to Probitas/Griffols, Spain, and the MAB Leadership of Sierra Leone.
Their responses helped to salvage the precarious situation that the hospital found herself. Finding these items was really challenging but due to their positive and timely response, the hospital maintained her services actively.
The St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital has completed renovation of the Isolation ward and has named the building the Granada Treatment Center. Continue reading
The management of the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital on tuesday July 21, 2020, dedicated a new wing of the maternity named in honor of Dr. Samuel G. Bowman. The new maternity wing, which was constructed with support from Contribute Foundation, is named in honor of Dr. Samuel G. Bowman for his long standing service to the hospital which span over 35 years. Continue reading
Amidst the growing increase in the Corona Virus worldwide, with three (3) confirmed cases already in Liberia, St. Joseph Catholic Hospital has begun series of awareness and sensitization programs for staff and patients visiting the hospital. Several flyers were designed with a list of preventive measures outlined to help curtail the spread of the virus. Below are samples of the flyers that were printed and pasted at various strategic places in the hospital compound. Continue reading
In early 2016, the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) established a research collaboration in Liberia with the Saint Joseph’s Catholic Hospital (SJCH) and the Liberia Medicines and Health Regulatory Authority (LMHRA). With funding from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, two ISGlobal-led projects started. Both aiming at building hospital and regulatory authority staff capacities to conduct research on infectious diseases. Continue reading
Research and development of preventive and therapeutic interventions for emerging pathogens have been difficult to maintain in the past once outbreaks come to an end.
In Liberia, much of the research on Ebola ended when the outbreak faded in 2016 even though sustained funding could have led to further the development of vaccine candidates and other therapies for Ebola. Continue reading
Mr Xisco Muñoz Espuig, a graduate in Sociology and Political Sciences and Consultant in International Cooperation visited Monrovia last 28th June to conduct lectures about the importance of the data in any research project. Continue reading