John: the Maternal Center of Excellence should dramatically accelerate progress in care at Koidu (2020)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2026-02-24) · owner: John
In April 2021 John predicted that the Maternal Center of Excellence would dramatically speed up the progress already made in care at Koidu Government Hospital; in December 2021 he repeated the hope, expecting the centre to open in 2023.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John: the Maternal Center of Excellence is on track to open on schedule (2021) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will open in 2023 (2021) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will complete construction in October 2025 and begin opening to patients in January 2026 (2025) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Kono and beyond (2022) · John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019) · John: Partners In Health will break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence in spring 2021 (2020)
About: Maternal Center of Excellence, Koidu Government Hospital
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-11-17 | predicted | The change is happening, but John and PIH believe a high-quality teaching hospital must accelerate it. | Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update 00:01:56 |
| 2021-04-20 | predicted | John says the MCOE should dramatically accelerate this progress. (hedged) | Breaking Ground!!! 00:01:16 |
| 2021-12-21 | repeated | John hopes the progress at Koidu will be accelerated by the Maternal Center of Excellence opening in 2023. (hedged) | NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:02:26 |
| 2024-11-26 | partly came true | Vicky Reed told John that although the Maternal Center of Excellence is still under construction, its fruits already show: more community health workers, more specially trained obstetric nurses, and better-supported, safer clinics. | Good News 00:02:52 |
| 2025-10-01 | repeated | John says maternal mortality at the hospital will decline further with the opening next month (November 2025) of the Maternal Center of Excellence there. | Real Reasons for Hope 00:03:53 |
| 2026-02-24 | came true | John says the Paul Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence finally opened at Koidu Government Hospital, radically transforming infant and maternal care in eastern Sierra Leone. | Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — announcement: John: Some system strengthening is already happening: more community outreach, training for nurses and midwives, and social support for pregnant women and new mothers. — 00:02:26
- 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John reports that Isata Dumbuya, the nurse leading Koidu Government Hospital's maternal and child health teams, told him the next big step for the community is the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:02:26
- 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
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — recommendation: John calls the letter from PIH Sierra Leone Executive Director Dr. Bailor Barrie beautiful, with a link to read it. — 00:02:55
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — ask: John asks those able, at year's end, to join the thousands of nerdfighters making monthly or one-time donations to PIH's work to reduce maternal mortality, at pih.org/hankandjohn. — 00:02:55
- 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — announcement: John: Hank and John will both take next week (week of 27 December 2021) off from Vlogbrothers, so this is John's last video of 2021. — 00:02:55