By Lincoln G. Peters
Monrovia, Liberia; August 22, 2025 – The Workplace of Liberia’s First Girl, Kartumu Yarta Boakai, has taken an enormous step to handle crucial medical hole inside the Liberian well being sector, particularly maternal childbirth.
The First Girl Workplace hosted an interactive discussion board for over 100 Liberian well being practitioners to recruit candidates for greater than 75 absolutely funded scholarships in crucial medical specializations.
For docs, the scholarships cowl a variety of high-demand fields, together with varied areas of Oncology, comparable to medical, pediatric, gynecological, surgical, and radiation oncology, in addition to breast surgical procedure, ache and palliative medication, pathology, interventional radiology, and head and neck surgical procedure.
Different accessible specialties embody reproductive medication and embryology, diabetology and hypertension, pediatric cardiology and endocrinology, crucial care, neurosurgery, rheumatology, backbone surgical procedure, geriatrics, infectious illnesses, stroke medication, household medication, cardiology, pediatrics, ladies’s well being, urology, and gastroenterology.
For nurses and technicians, applications can be found in oncology nursing, radiation technician coaching, laboratory technician applications, and oncology analysis and cytoscreener coaching.
The session, held on the A. M. Kyne Collegiate Useful resource Middle on the William V. S. Tubman Excessive Faculty in Sinkor, Monrovia, supplied detailed info on the scholarship applications, together with accessible specializations, eligibility necessities, and software procedures.
Offered by the Merck Basis in partnership with the Workplace of the First Girl and the Ministry of Well being, these scholarships are a cornerstone of the federal government’s effort to construct a sophisticated and resilient healthcare system for Liberia.
The absolutely funded applications, which vary from three months to 1 12 months, can be performed each on-line and on-campus at main universities in the UK and India. To be eligible, candidates should be Liberian well being practitioners with requisite educational credentials and a proper advice from the Workplace of the First Girl and the Ministry of Well being.
The ultimate choice of candidates can be communicated by means of the MERCK FOUNDATION upon receiving an acceptance letter from the college and a canopy advice letter from the workplace of the First Girl and the MOH.
The appliance course of commenced instantly following the discussion board. and certified candidates have been requested to submit their up to date resumes to the Workplace of the First Girl.
Upon receipt, they are going to be added to a devoted common group to obtain centralized steering and assist all through the applying course of to their respective universities.
The First Girl’s Workplace emphasised that this initiative would equip Liberia’s frontline healthcare staff with top-notch coaching to allow them to offer high-quality care and save lives.
Welcoming the candidates, Mr. Varfee Holmes, Senior Communications Marketing consultant within the Workplace of the First Girl, expressed the ardent want of the First Girl to advertise high quality well being take care of all residents of the nation and, in her capability as Maternal Well being champion, has vowed to realize this throughout her tenure as First Girl.
He talked about that the First Girl isn’t just fascinated about modernizing maternal well being schools but additionally guaranteeing that there are certified nurses and docs prepared to provide out high quality medical providers to public hospital in Liberia.
