John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2026-04-28) · owner: John
From April 2021 John said that, as a teaching hospital, the Maternal Center of Excellence would train the next generation of Sierra Leonean midwives, nurses and doctors, and he repeated it in 2023, 2025 and 2026. In April 2026 he said it was doing so.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn (2019) · John: at current monthly donation rates, the PIH Sierra Leone project will raise over $15 million in five years (2020) · John (with Hank): follow the PIH Sierra Leone project for five years with video, photo and audio updates (2019) · Partners In Health maternal health project in Liberia funded by DFTBA profit (2019) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will dramatically change the quality of care for women and children in its region (2020) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence should dramatically accelerate progress in care at Koidu (2020) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Kono and beyond (2022) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence's first wards will open in 2024 (2023)
About: Maternal Center of Excellence, Sierra Leone
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-22 | predicted | John says the plan includes building and supporting a Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, with a NICU, more C-section operating rooms and a teaching hospital. | Why We're Donating $6,500,000 00:03:54 |
| 2020-11-17 | repeated | As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health workers, from doctors and nurses to community health workers. | Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:04:14 |
| 2021-04-20 | predicted | As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers. · also in: Risk Is a Privilege | Breaking Ground!!! 00:01:16 |
| 2022-09-13 | repeated | Most of the money goes to building, staffing, maintaining and supplying the Maternal Center of Excellence, a teaching hospital in Koidu; some supports primary health care, especially in Kayima. | A Million Things at Once 00:02:34 |
| 2022-11-15 | repeated | John explains that PIH and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health planned the Maternal Center of Excellence, a maternal and infant wing of Koidu Government Hospital with a blood bank, surgical suites for safe C-sections and a teaching role. | 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next 00:00:29 |
| 2023-05-02 | repeated | The MCOE will also be a teaching hospital where a new generation of midwives, nurses and doctors will train. | GOOD NEWS 00:02:26 |
| 2024-06-18 | repeated | For PIH and the Ministry of Health, radically reducing maternal mortality meant everything from hiring many community health workers to building a teaching maternal and infant care center at Koidu Government Hospital. | The Tea 00:00:29 |
| 2024-11-26 | partly came true | There are more OB/GYNs in the region, with more being trained all the time, because Koidu Government Hospital serves as a teaching hospital. | Good News 00:03:09 |
| 2025-05-13 | repeated | John says the MCOE will be a world-class training facility that strengthens and supports Sierra Leone's health care workforce. | I Have the BEST News 00:04:02 |
| 2025-10-31 | repeated | Hank says the MCOE, built and staffed by Sierra Leoneans, invests not only in community health but in the economy, medical education and health infrastructure of Sierra Leone and Kono District. | We Did It… 00:06:45 |
| 2026-02-20 | came true | The description asks viewers for a one-time or monthly donation to keep the MCOE funded, staffed and training healthcare workers, at act.pih.org/hankandjohn. | What We Actually Did. video description |
| 2026-04-14 | came true | John says that as a teaching facility the MCOE is training nurses, midwives and doctors to spread what they learn across the country. | Babies. Babies. Babies. 00:02:55 |
| 2026-04-28 | came true | John says the facility is training the next generation of Sierra Leonean nurses, midwives and doctors. | What I Can't Show You 00:03:24 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: Asked what else they needed, PIH Sierra Leone named teaching classrooms and a 100-bed dormitory, an outpatient department with maternal HIV support and family planning, a medicine warehouse, and support for the Kayima clinic. — 00:06:03
- 2022-11-15 · 3 Years In: What Happened, Why, and What's Next — announcement: John says Koidu Government Hospital is already becoming a teaching hospital: its first cohort of nurses and midwives recently finished rotations there, opening those careers to more people in the region. — 00:00:58
- 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says 96 percent of PIH Sierra Leone's employees are Sierra Leonean, and he has seen what they accomplish even with extremely limited resources. — 00:04:11
- 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — John says he and Hank are not experts, but learning from experts taught them that lasting change happens best through deep, ongoing, lasting partnerships, hence a long-term commitment of money and attention. — 00:04:24
- 2019-10-22 · Why We're Donating $6,500,000 — announcement: John says they are committed to following the project's successes and challenges over the next five years and beyond, through video, photo and audio updates and interviews with Sierra Leonean health workers. — 00:04:43
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John will do a livestream later that afternoon going through the financial and fundraising side in detail. — 00:01:46
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — ask: John: There is still a funding gap, so John asks those able to donate to the project at PIH.org/hankandjohn. — 00:01:46
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John just finished recording The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook, which was fun; he found only one typo. — 00:01:46
- 2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — John says the Kayima clinic is the main source of medical care for over 90,000 people and lacks reliable running water and electricity. — 00:03:03
- 2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — announcement: John: Thanks to increased support, the Kayima clinic is being renovated and is hiring and training staff to become a safe place to deliver babies and refer complicated cases to the hospital. — 00:03:03