John: answer viewers' questions in the comments of the Kissy hospital video (2019)
promise · status: open (no report in 2019–2026) · last event: promised (2019-04-09) · owner: John
In his April 2019 video about Kissy Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone, John said he would be in the comments to answer viewers' questions.
About: Kissy Psychiatric Hospital
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-09 | promised | John says he will be in the comments to answer questions. | The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone 00:06:10 |
What is said about it
14 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John and Sarah spent last week (week of 1 April 2019) in Sierra Leone learning about its health care system and visited Kissy Psychiatric Hospital. — 00:00:00
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John thanks viewers who have donated to the first half of the Project for Awesome in the last few years: they helped fund Kissy's ongoing transformation. — video description
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says Kissy is a 199-year-old facility and the only mental health hospital in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:10
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: Dr. Jalloh explained that as recently as a year ago the hospital was dire: no medication, water supply or electricity, broken toilets, almost everything collapsing. — 00:00:30
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says many patients were chained to their beds for much of the day and night. — 00:00:58
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says the old pharmacy's shelves had long been nearly empty, leaving no medication for psychic pain, very few clinicians for therapy, and no water or electricity. — 00:01:27
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: A charity donated two huge generators that were far too powerful for the hospital's grid and shorted everything out; staff could have said what they needed, but no one asked. — 00:01:56
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: Partners In Health, working with the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jalloh, staff and patients, brought the right generator, more staff, hundreds of medications, new beds and running water. — 00:02:10
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: With medication and other treatment available, many patients now live at home; as a nurse explained, a year ago almost all Kissy's patients stayed in hospital, and now most live at home. — 00:02:42
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says chaining has ended: patients walk freely in their care area, and humane restraints, used when patients threaten themselves or others, are now rare. — 00:03:11
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John: Several patients talked with John; one long-term patient described how life at Kissy has changed in the past two years. — 00:03:28
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says no one wants to be a psychiatric patient, chronic mental illness is extremely hard to live with even at best, and Kissy still has a long way to go. — 00:03:40
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — announcement: John: More areas will open: a lecture hall to train Sierra Leonean clinicians, and a ward that will be the country's first dedicated drug addiction rehabilitation center. — 00:03:52
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John says the transformation so far is truly profound and has immeasurably improved the patients' lives. — 00:04:15