Medical

 

Richard & Helen Devos Medical Center

Bo-Waterside

Tewor District, Grand Cape Mount County

Liberia, West Africa

Picture of our Out-Patient Department-OPD Above.

 

Our medical center now serves as a stalwart cornerstone amongst the bordering communities of Western Liberia and Eastern Sierra Leone; providing highly needed medical and other health care services: including general diagnostics for appropriate treatment and or referrals, as well as a considerable focus on pre/post-natal care. The center even though it charges as little as 75cents for most patient care, provides free services for pregnant women and children under five.

The DeVos Medical center also further strives to provide preventive care as an integral part of our rural ministry, to promote a healthy and more productive community. Since its historic opening in 2011, the DeVos medical center has most recently opened a laboratory in 2012, with additional efforts geared toward opening its own Blood bank in late 2013; both of these efforts are a part and parcel of our unflinching commitment to enhancing the quality of care and the saving of lives.

Now with the advancement of science and modern technology, modern medicine recognizes the attending sophistication of today’s advanced medical and diagnostic systems-absolutely necessary in today’s world-for proper and appropriate treatments. As such, the DeVos medical center is directly committed to the acquisition of and inclusion in its medical arsenal, the MRI, CBC machine, X-ray, EKG and other modern medical technologies (the CBC machine being the mostcritical)-albeit with the attending and appropriately trained staff within the foreseeable calendar year.

Additionally the introduction of the DeVos medical center mobile clinic is scheduled for mid-year 2014, as we endeavor an expansion of reach to coincide with the anticipated operations of our surgery theater.

Words are truly most inadequate to fully express our thanks and convey the gratitude of the Liberian and Sierra Leonean communities of which the DeVos village complex is today a cherished pillar of reenergized hope and attainment.

 

Below photo is a little Girl been treated from severe malaria

 

Each morning people come from Bo Waterside, across the border in Sierra Leone as well as from villages around Bo-Waterside for various medical needs. The Clinic sees about 70 to 80 patients daily as well as those that come on an emergency basis during non clinic hours to seek medical care .The vast majority of the cases are ante natal, and malaria related.

 

 

A little boy with high fever.

 

Below are patients being treated from malaria, in our short stay ward

 

 

Below is a nurse establishing the IV line on a little girl that is being treated from Malaria.

Establishing the IV line on a little boy.

 

 

Patients waiting for medication at the pharmacy.

 

 

Patients waiting to enter Consultation Room

 

Our records show that it costs the DeVos Medical Center around US$10 to treat each Patient, for the medical serviceswe provide while patients are charged about $0.75 (seventy five cents) which covers their registration, consultation, and medicines. Our costs for treating those persons is slated to go up as more services such as sonograms electrocardiograms, X-rays and various other lab services are provided

 

With the growing medical needs of the community served by theDeVos Medical center, the medical staff has stated the need forupgrading of the service capacity at the medical center.

 

The building above is the Women and Children, ward, which currently handles our maternity cases