During the first and second civil wars, lots of hospitals in Liberia either were destroyed or demolished. The population of Liberia faced the shortage of medical services, medical equipment etc. And after this, during the Ebola outbreak, demand for medical services increased on a large scale. As this disease speeded so fast and spread throughout populations due to human interaction. For this reason, the medical services were becoming less compared to their demand as doctors, health workers and medicines were not sufficient to fulfill the demand of the affected population in Liberia.

Liberia is a low income country and doesn’t have a sufficient budget to export expensive and modern medical equipment. And mostly depends on international health organizations and NGO to serve the people of Liberia. Apart from Ebola, there are several other diseases that Liberia’s population have to face such as Malaria, Diarrheal, Lower respiratory infections, HIV/AIDS, Stroke etc.

There is a major shortage of medicines, medical supplies and vaccines, mainly caused by the lack of security and interrupted delivery of medical supplies such as insulin, anti-Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and intravenous fluids in hospitals. The operations theaters experience difficulty due to anesthetic insufficiency, dressing materials and internal fracture fixators.

Our non-profit organization- The LANSANAH Foundation, is one of those NGO in Liberia which is providing medical services to vulnerable families because the people don’t have enough money to pay private hospital bills and buy expensive medicines.

Health and awareness programs that we offer in these camps are:

1. Routinely medical checkups.

2. Distributing necessary medicines and health equipment to patients.

3. What steps are needed to address urgent medical needs?

4. Steps to save the injured person’s life in case of militant’s attacks, bombing etc.

5. In the absence of a doctor or emergency care, self-medical treatment.