John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will complete construction in October 2025 and begin opening to patients in January 2026 (2025)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2026-02-24) · owner: John
In May 2025 John announced that the Maternal Center of Excellence would finish construction in October and open to patients in January 2026; the brothers restated the opening that autumn. In February 2026 Hank reported the first baby born in its NICU, the first in Sierra Leone.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will fully open in 2025 (2024) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence's first wards will open in 2024 (2023) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence should dramatically accelerate progress in care at Koidu (2020) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence is on track to open on schedule (2021) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Kono and beyond (2022) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will dramatically change the quality of care for women and children in its region (2020)
About: Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-13 | predicted | John announces that the long-dreamed-of Maternal Center of Excellence will complete construction in October and, after intensive training and protocol refinement, begin opening to patients in January. | I Have the BEST News 00:02:59 |
| 2025-10-01 | repeated | John says the Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital opens next month (November 2025). | Real Reasons for Hope 00:03:53 |
| 2025-10-31 | repeated | Hank says when the MCOE's doors open in early 2026, lives will be saved immediately. | We Did It… 00:07:14 |
| 2025-11-11 | partly came true | John reminds himself that, as Hank noted last week (week of 3 November 2025), the ribbon has been cut on the completed Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone. | John's Annual Psychophysical Decline 00:00:58 |
| 2026-02-20 (happened 2026-02) | came true | Hank announces that this weekend, during P4A, which was instrumental in building the Paul E. Farmer Maternal Center of Excellence at Koidu Government Hospital, the first baby was born in Sierra Leone's first NICU. | What We Actually Did. 00:03:49 |
| 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
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says the MCOE took six years of fundraising and four years of construction. — 00:01:37
- 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says PIH and the Ministry of Health work with the community to make it last: employing local women in construction, training health workers, building sustainable infrastructure. — 00:07:43
- 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank says the real work is done on the ground by wonderful people, and he is grateful to them and to everyone who supported the project, even by watching. — 00:07:43
- 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John says the MCOE brings Sierra Leone its first NICU, over a hundred new maternal beds, safe operating suites for emergency C-sections and a blood bank, all owned by Sierra Leoneans through their government. — 00:01:37
- 2025-11-11 · John's Annual Psychophysical Decline — John calls the MCOE a statement of intent: the long-term, open-ended problems of maternal and child mortality in Kono are being met by long-term, open-ended support from the community. — 00:01:37
- 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says she was triaged first among other pregnant women, and her baby was born by C-section just after 1pm on Valentine's Day. — 00:04:18
- 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank lists other first-day patients: a mother with chest pains who drove five hours, one past her due date who had the second C-section, and one rushed from a nearby clinic. — 00:04:18
- 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says by the end of the first day the center had its first ambulance referral and first vaginal birth, 27 mothers admitted and 13 babies born. — 00:04:47
- 2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did. — Hank says he did none of this: at most he had fun ideas that turned people's heads, and they did the rest; John turned his head, and Paul Farmer turned John's. — 00:04:47