Maternal health care in Sierra Leone continues to face persistent challenges, encompassing limited access to quality healthcare services, insufficient infrastructure with a shortage of well-equipped facilities and skilled healthcare professionals, and cultural and...
On July 20th, our Lyn Maternal Health Clinic medical staff gathered with our Ghana staff for COVID-19 training. This training was designed to teach health prevention practices in a viral pandemic, to ensure the medical staff continues to maintain an exemplary standard...
“My name is Monjama Talleh from Bo, Sierra Leone. I have been coming to the Lyn Clinic to learn about the health and care of myself, especially during my pregnancies. I have learned so many things like birth preparedness, breast care, and” “My name is Monjama...
Two year old Maame lives in Accra, Ghana. She was born with a hole in her heart called ventricular septal defect (VSD). According to doctors, the condition requires a complex surgery to close the hole. This surgery, however, was not available in Ghana so her case was...
Gobasi, Ethiopia is a rural village with 5,000 people located about 75 miles southeast of Ethiopia’s capitol Addis Ababa. A health post was built 30 years ago using local soil, stones and wood by the local people in the community. The structure was showing...
We know that families living without healthcare coverage suffer from far more than just inadequate access to medications and health services. Illness among the poor often leads families to seek desperate measures to find money for medications. This desperation places...
