
Liberia
Our teams provide specialised paediatric care in the Bardnesville Junction Hospital that we opened in Monrovia during the Ebola epidemic in 2015. Malnutrition, malaria, and lower respiratory tract infections are some of the most common conditions among the children we treat.
In 2021, we resumed the paediatric surgery programme in the hospital, where we provide urological, plastic and emergency surgeries. We also resumed hands-on paediatric training programmes for Liberian health workers.
Due to a lack of medications for mental health or neurological disorders, patients often face social stigma that can lead to exclusion from schools or jobs. We support health facilities in Montserrado County with diagnosis, treatment and essential medicines for mental health conditions and epilepsy, and continue to expand our cohort of patients in five health facilities.
Our teams also supervise health workers in outpatient departments and make hospital referrals when necessary. In addition, we collaborate with psychosocial workers and volunteers to identify patients, and work with their families and communities to reduce social stigma.

Saving children's lives in Liberia
Saving children's lives in Liberia
Tanya Haj-Hassan is an MSF pediatrician from Philadelphia who worked at Bardnesville Junction Hospital in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, from April to October 2018.
We set up Bardnesville Junction Hospital in 2015 to provide urgently needed care for children during the Ebola epidemic, which claimed the lives of more than 200 Liberian medical workers and put a heavy strain on the country's medical system. The hospital now admits about 100 children a week for conditions including malaria, severe acute malnutrition, non-bloody diarrhea and respiratory tract infections.
Dr Haj-Hassan explains why child mortality remains so high and what the team at Bardnesville have done to help save more children's lives.
Our activities in 2021 in Liberia
Data and information from the International Activity Report 2021.
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