John: as Sierra Leoneans trust mental health care, demand for its services will keep rising (2019)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2021-04-20) · owner: John
Reporting from Sierra Leone's only psychiatric hospital in April 2019, John predicted that as Sierra Leoneans come to trust mental health care, demand for its services will keep rising and bring new challenges.
Told alongside: John (with Hank): follow the PIH Sierra Leone project for five years with video, photo and audio updates (2019)
About: mental disorder, Sierra Leone
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-09 | predicted | John predicts that as Sierra Leoneans come to trust mental health care to work, demand for services will keep rising, bringing new challenges. | The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone 00:04:05 |
| 2020-01-28 | came true | John says access to mental health care in Kono has dramatically increased, and people with cancer or type 1 diabetes, until recently death sentences, are now treated there. | Looking Away (Again) 00:03:48 |
| 2021-04-20 | came true | The mental health clinic is growing, as is a new clinic for adolescent care. | Breaking Ground!!! 00:01:16 |
What is said about it
8 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 says the transformation so far is truly profound and has immeasurably improved the patients' lives. — 00:04:15
- 2019-04-09 · The Only Psychiatric Hospital in Sierra Leone — John feels kinship with the patients because he owes his life to effective mental health treatment, the kind they are at last beginning to receive. — 00:04:22
- 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John says PIH now employs over 450 people, 96% Sierra Leonean; local nutritional supplements are reducing malnutrition; the hospital's maternal team is hiring nine nurses and four midwives. — 00:04:17
- 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John: Citing PIH's Jon Lascher, John says the hospital is the only place within many hours' travel where women can get an emergency C-section, straining an inadequate maternity ward. — 00:04:17
- 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — announcement: John says PIH and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health are building a Maternal Center of Excellence and a NICU at the hospital, more than tripling maternal beds. — 00:04:46
- 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