John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will fully open in 2025 (2024)

prediction · status: proved wrong · last event: proved wrong (2026-02-20) · owner: John

In June 2024 John said the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone would not fully open until the next year, 2025.

date	event	what	video
2024-06-18	predicted	John says the hospital will not fully open until next year (2025).	The Tea 00:01:27
2025-05-13	proved wrong	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
2026-02-20	proved wrong	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

What is said about it

4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

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