John: the Maternal Center of Excellence's first wards will open in 2024 (2023)
prediction · status: proved wrong · last event: proved wrong (2026-02-20) · owner: John
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 will complete construction in October 2025 and begin opening to patients in January 2026 (2025) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will dramatically change the quality of care for women and children in its region (2020) · John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019)
About: Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-02 | predicted | John says the MCOE's first wards will hopefully open next year (2024). (hedged) | GOOD NEWS 00:01:56 |
| 2024-01-16 | repeated | John says some of the maternal and infant care center's wards will open this year (2024). | The Bank of Nerdfighteria 00:00:40 |
| 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
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The MCOE will have two NICUs, for babies born inside and outside the hospital, and theaters and supplies for up to 10 emergency C-sections a day. — 00:02:26
- 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John: The MCOE will also be a teaching hospital where a new generation of midwives, nurses and doctors will train. — 00:02:26
- 2023-05-02 · GOOD NEWS — John visited the site of the future dormitories and staff housing and met boys engaged in the cross-cultural tradition of watching big machines. (playful) — 00:02:26
- 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Across all their merch projects the brothers donated about $268,000 in 2019 and $598,000 in 2020, then, after a huge jump, almost $3.5 million in 2023 alone. — 00:00:57
- 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says keeping up that growth in donations will be really challenging, mostly because the company and Nerdfighteria got a ton of media attention last year (2023) for something they do not want to repeat. — 00:01:16
- 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Most of the money still comes from the Awesome Socks Club, but coffee and soap are growing, and Pizzamas grew last year (2023) too. — 00:01:31
- 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Beyond the Sierra Leone maternal and child care project, Hank's Cancer Socks raised over $350,000 this year (2024) to support better cancer care in impoverished communities. — 00:01:43
- 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: The merch money also supports increasing access to tuberculosis care. — 00:01:52