Four nurses have safely returned home after being trained in proving healthcare for ear and hearing diseases in Zambia for the past ten months.
The nurses were sent to Zambia by the Church Aid Incorporated, the relief Department arm of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church International early this year.
Those trained in healthcare for ear and hearing diseases were Madeline Konneh, a nurse from the John F Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia, Hannah Neawah, Government Hospital in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, Abel Fokpa and Moses Bimman, both from Curran Lutheran Hospital in Lofa County.
Speaking in an interview with journalists in Brewerville shortly after a thanksgiving service organized by Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church International for their safe arrival in country over the weekend, the head of the four nurses, Madeline Konneh, lauded Church Aid Incorporated for such an opportunity afforded them.
She also expressed thanks and appreciation to Bishop Kortu K. Brown, who is the overseer of Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church International, and the entire membership of the church for the opportunity and their prayers while they were away
Madeline Konneh noted that the training she and her colleagues attained from the Starkey Hearing Institute in Zambia is very important because institutional healthcare for ear and hearing is not in the country.
She appealed to well meaning Liberians and the Government of Liberia (GOL) for the establishment of an ear and hearing healthcare department at each hospital across the country, so that people living with such condition can receive treatment. She stated that the establishment of such an institutional department will help to fully carter to their treatment needs.
For his part, Bishop Kortu K. Brown, who is the overseer of Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church International, thanked God for the safe arrival of the four nurses in the country over the weekend.
According to him, a plan is underway to have discussion with the government and some international partners for the establishment of a hearing and sound department under the Ministry of Health.
