The executive director of a charitable organization under the banner Vision for the Hopeless International has disclosed the launching of a mobile clinic to speedily address health care situations in Monrovia and its environs beginning early august of this year.
Amongst other issues, the vision of the establishment of a mobile clinic is to bring healthcare services to the doorsteps of many ailing Liberians who are in need of basic health services but are unable to do so due to the severity of their illnesses and financial constraints.
Speaking via mobile phone recently from the United States, Tenneh Johnson, the CEO for the Vision of the Hopeless International said, the health situation in Liberia is alarming with the outbreak of the third wave of the coronavirus; as such it requires a collective and speedy effort. “The health situation in Liberia is very serious as our people are dying on a daily basis. We have to come together quickly to save our people,” she said.
Tenneh also revealed that the establishment of a mobile has been a dream for years which she has been struggling to achieve adding that the project should have been launched in December of 2020 but was not possible due to few setbacks encountered.
The Vision for the Hopeless International through its mobile clinic will begin its first round in Montserrado targeting slum communities with the most venerable and less fortunate people before extending to other parts of the country.
The institution is currently surviving on 40% donor funds and 60% family resources and is going to be in Liberia as long as Liberians want it to stay according to the CEO. “Our institution is serving on few donors and majority of family support and we will try our best to remain in Liberia as long as our clients and Liberians want us to stay,” Tenneh added.
Apart from basic medical treatments, the mobile clinic will also provide healthcare education to its clients in local dialects to ensure that patients of all tongues in Liberia fully understand the kind of disease they are infected with before commencing any treatment.
She concluded that an ambulance has already been shipped to Liberia to begin the program.