By: T. Lula Jaurey tqlulajaurey@gmail.com
IPNews-Monrovia-Liberia-Wednesday 28 November 2018: Seventy-five thousand United States dollars clinics had been constructed in Boys Town, Marshall as mean of easing some of the health challenge citizens in the area are face with.
The clinic contains eleven (11) bed rooms and six bathrooms and is intended to attend for less fortunate people, whose do not have moneys.
Boys Town is among several communities in Liberia that had face and is facing serious health situation to include: infant and maternal mortality, yellow fever, among others.
Speaking during the delegation ceremony of the clinic in the area, the Proprietress of the Boys Town Community Clinic in Marshall, Sarah Fayiah said the community had had problem with healthcare saying “The clinic is for those who are de-finance in and around Boys Town.
I decided to do this because of financial difficulties in my community and the entire Boys Town; there are people who cannot afford to take their family members to hospital, Fayiah added.
She emphasized that not many persons are able or have financial standing to seek healthcare at a bigger hospitals like ELWA, JFK, James Davies, Redemption, and Catholic amongst others saying “This clinic is for people who don’t have plenty money.”
Fayiah explained that finding nurses and doctors to work in the area remain a major challenge for them.
In addition, she hope that the ministry of health and other partners will come to her buttress her effort by extending aid to the clinic saying “whenever rain falls the entire area is over flooded with water and I don’t have anybody to help me in this project besides my husband, I calling on the ministry of health to come to my aid and make this clinic in buttressing government’s effort.”
