Four additional Nurses from Government runs Hospital from four counties leaves the country this week to undergo special training in Hearing Healthcare training in Zimbia
Those nurses expected to depart the country this week include: Blessing Acquire, of the Government Hospital in Grand Bassa County, Georgia A. Gray from Redemption Hospital in Montserrado County, Naomi Smith, from the CD Dunbah Hospital in Bong County and Vanja Mama Kowula, from C. H. Rennie Hospital in Margibi County.
The Campaign to Promote Hearing Healthcare in Liberia is sponsored by Church Aid Incorporated, the relief Department arm of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church International and this is a second batch of candidates for Hearing Instrument Specialists which is intended to help reduce the disease in the country.
Early last year, Church Aid in collaboration with its local International partners trained four nurses in Hearing Healthcare, those benefited from first training in Zimbia include: P. Magdalene Konneh, from the John F Kennedy Medical Center in Montserrado County, Hannah H. Newah, nurse from the Government Hospital in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, Mr. D. Iben Porkpah, and Mr. Moses Biman Jr, both of them are from Curran Lutheran Hospital in Lofa County.
During a Special Thanksgiving and Prayer Service for the candidates which was held Sunday February 4th at the New Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Brewerville, the candidates expressed thanks and appreciation to Bishop Kortu K .Brown, who is the overseer of Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church International, the entire membership of the church for the opportunity and their prayers while they prepared to depart the country this week.
According to him, over the past two years Church Aid Incorporated has embank on to train twenty (20) nurses for the next five years that help carter to people suffering from hearing complications in the country and the region.
In a Special Prayer sermon offered for the candidates, during a special Thanksgiving and Prayer Service, Bishop Kortu K Brown, lauded the Ministry of Health for partnering with him and his team for such initiative in the country.
According to him, they are anticipating to train about twenty (20), persons in hearing instrument specialists that will be assign at government Referral Hospitals across the country, saying their aimed for the campaign to go beyond Liberia mainly in the Mano River basic to help fight the disease in the region
Bishop Kortu K. Brown asserted that the campaign to train Hearing Healthcare in the country required more funding and it need the involvement of every Liberian including the stakeholders in the country.
“Now we are planning our 1st Public Campaign on this Friday, February 9, 2024, proposing Jenneh #3 in Dowein District – Bomi County as the venue for the first community awareness campaign and we need to reach out to the District Commissioner’s Office, the APC church and other stakeholders in those communities to do the awareness”, Bishop Kortu K. Brown as said
He noted that assessment and treatment of possible cases have been identified on that basis according to him, they have communicated with Rev. Miatta Sirleaf and P. Magdalene Konneh to reach out and organize the Friday program.
Already, Montserrado County Senator Saah H. Joseph has pledged his mobile clinic for the outreach, he also told Bishop Brown during Special Thanksgiving and Prayer Service for the nurses who are expected to leave the country for the number of candidate to be increase.
Montserrado County Senator promised to lobber with his colleagues on Capitol Hill for serious attention to be given to Hearing Healthcare specialist to be train in the country
Those in the photo above :L to R: Blessing Acquire, Grand Bassa County Hospital, Georgia A. Gray, Redemption Hospital in Monrovia, Senator Saah Joseph, Rev. Miatta Sirleaf, Church Aid Director, Bishop Kortu K. Brown, Church Aid Chairperson, Naomi Smith, Bong County CD Dunbah Hospital, and Vanja Mama Kowula (Margibi County C. H. Rennie Hospital.
