By: Emmanuel Tobotinho Quiah
Yediaken City–Residents of Yediaken City in Karluway District have renewed pressing calls on the Authorities of Liberia, significantly the Ministry of Well being, to rehabilitate and assemble employees quarters for well being employees on the Yediaken Well being Middle, warning that the absence of lodging is crippling efficient healthcare supply locally.
Talking on behalf of residents, neighborhood spokesperson Ms. Evon T. Williams stated the dearth of nurses’ quarters has made it practically inconceivable for well being employees to offer round the clock medical providers, particularly throughout nights and weekends when emergencies are most crucial.
In keeping with Ms. Williams, well being personnel assigned to the ability are sometimes pressured to go away the neighborhood after working hours as a result of there is no such thing as a place for them to remain. Because of this, emergency circumstances, significantly involving pregnant ladies, kids, and critically in poor health sufferers are left unattended.
“The absence of employees quarters continues to undermine emergency response in Yediaken,” Ms. Williams lamented. “There are occasions when individuals are rushed and even bodily carried to the well being middle, solely to seek out that no well being employee is on the market.”
She described the scenario as each “embarrassing and heartbreaking,” noting that some well being employees reportedly go away the neighborhood even earlier than weekends as a result of lack of shelter.
Ms. Williams additional disclosed that Yediaken’s scenario displays a broader problem dealing with a number of communities alongside the Cavalla River Belt, the place well being employees are stated to desert obligation posts on weekends as a result of there are not any quarters to deal with them.
This, she warned, exposes residents to extreme well being dangers and preventable deaths.
Regardless of the challenges, Ms. Williams recommended the World Financial institution–supported well being venture presently underway in Yediaken, describing the development of a contemporary well being facility as a serious increase to healthcare entry and repair supply within the space.
She, nonetheless, cautioned that with out employees housing, the total advantages of the brand new facility will not be realized.
“The constructing alone shouldn’t be sufficient,” she burdened. “If there are not any quarters for nurses and different well being employees, the ability will stay underutilized, and our folks will proceed to endure.”
Reflecting on the neighborhood’s lengthy wrestle for healthcare providers, Ms. Williams recalled that way back to 2006, residents inspired by a son of the soil primarily based in Monrovia reduce sticks from close by bushes to assemble a makeshift clinic via neighborhood initiative.
That construction served because the neighborhood’s solely well being publish for years earlier than gaining recognition from the nationwide authorities.
She described the continuing development of the fashionable well being middle as a “dream come true” for Yediaken, expressing gratitude to each the World Financial institution and the Authorities of Liberia for his or her intervention.
Nevertheless, she used the chance to strongly enchantment to the Ministry of Well being to prioritize the development of nurses’ quarters on the Yediaken Well being Middle to make sure that certified well being employees can stay locally and supply steady medical care.
Ms. Williams made the enchantment throughout an interview with group of reporters on January 7, 2026, emphasizing that addressing employees lodging is vital to saving lives and bettering healthcare outcomes in Yediaken and neighboring communities.
Alphonso Toweh
Has been within the career for over twenty years. He has labored for a lot of worldwide media retailers together with: West Africa Journal, Africa Week Journal, African Observer and did occasional reporting for CNN, BBC World Service, Sunday Instances, NPR, Radio Deutchewells, Radio Netherlands. He’s the present correspondent for Reuters
He holds first MA with honors in Worldwide Relations and a candidate for second grasp in Worldwide Peace research and Battle Decision from the College of Liberia.
