PHOTOS: PIH Celebrates Groundbreaking for Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone
Partners In Health, government leaders lay first bricks for state-of-the-art teaching hospital designed to provide a new level of care for Sierra Leonean women and families
Posted on May 7, 2021 Dr. Austin Demby, Sierra Leone’s minister of health, and Dr. Paul Farmer, PIH co-founder and chief strategist, take their turns laying the first symbolic bricks for the MCOE with Farmer taking a more hands-on approach. “This isn’t my first groundbreaking,” he joked.
(Guy Tucker / for PIH)
Partners In Health’s mission to radically reduce global maternal mortality has entered a new chapter with the groundbreaking of the Maternal Center of Excellence (MCOE) a state-of-the-art teaching hospital in Kono, Sierra Leone, that will not only provide a new level of health care to Sierra Leonean women and families, but also set new standards for what’s possible in women and children’s
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