The construction of a Healthcare Center in Foya Town, Lofa County is being hailed as a recent example of a Community-Managed Project (CMP), geared at capacity building within the healthcare sector. The CMP approach is a development program concept first introduced in the West Africa Region in the early 1990s by Plan International through one of its veteran international development leaders, James Fritz Foster.
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Management Committee of the project, women, children, and youth of the town.
The management committee is leading both the financial management and logistics of the project.
The community continues to seek financial support from friends, sons and daughters of Foya District, Lofa County and Liberia. Monies raised will be used for the project completion and for equipment.
Background - why the Liberian healthcare system needs a boost?
Liberia’s Healthcare system depends heavily on international donors' support and continues to face constrains for access. It is also a major socioeconomic hurdle for women, children, and young people, who continue to bear a high cost in human lives.
(Above photo: Ongoing construction work)
According to World Bank statistics, about “95% of the country's healthcare facilities had been destroyed by the time Liberia’s civil war ended in 2003. In 2009, government expenditure on health care per capita was US$22, accounting for 10.6% of total GDP. In 2008, Liberia had only one doctor and 27 nurses per 100,000 people.”
To help minimize the many healthcare challenges faced by residents of Fornin and Foya District at large in accessing affordable and quality healthcare services and to address childhood mortality, women health, and a growing young population who are dying too early; the groundbreaking construction of a primary healthcare center will support more than one thousand inhabitants of Fornin and a population estimated at more than 10 thousand.
The estimated population of over 10 thousand people in more than 20 surrounding towns and villages face the same challenge: - access to quality and affordable healthcare services - stand to benefit from the completion of this project.
Currently, "residents disclosed to us during the ground breaking ceremony that they usually carry patients on motorcycles including pregnant women to major health facilities for antenatal services and treatments and those who can't afford riding a bike, they normally walk for miles, which they said is responsible for several mortalities particularly amongst pregnant women and children."
The building and equipment of a health center will not only ease their many sufferings and unfortunate deaths, but will also guarantee their health and wellbeing, while allowing families to focus on educating their young children and supporting young people in their livelihood activities. Health is wealth and without it, the development of children and young people, remains a major challenge.
Above: Above photos from the time of ground-breaking to recent photos. Click on the album to see recent photos of the ongoing construction.
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