Honoring Sarah Carlson a native of Alaska, who volunteers her services to providing critical health needs in Liberia through Equip Liberia; a faith-based NGO. Sarah, 25, is an emergency room nurse from Alaska. Deciding to delay the pursuit of a dual master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, she chose to spend a year meeting critical health needs in Africa. Settled into the northern city of Ganta, Sarah took on the challenge of raising the standard of 9 EQUIP supported MOH clinics throughout Nimba County, to raise the level of service to meet the Ministry of Health’s Basic Package of Healthcare standard.
She identifies training needs and conducts and supervises training activities with clinical staff including clinic management, emergency triage, Universal Precautions, assessment skills, and Patient Management as well as networking with Community Health Committees (CHCs) members, Trained Traditional Midwives and Community Health Ambassadors.
In November, EQUIP Liberia’s Director’s and Sarah’s timely visit to one of EQUIP’s supported MOH clinic saved the life of baby Seywon. They had been on their way to Ganta from Tappita and were road weary. David found himself impulsively taking a sharp, unexpected turn to the right, onto the rugged dirt track towards EQUIP’s clinic in a small town called Flumpa. They were surprised to see light streaming out through the clinic windows from newly installed solar lights by Equip through funds from USAID from the American People.
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