In Liberia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works in collaboration with five local health facilities to treat more than 1,300 epilepsy patients. How do you treat epilepsy in Liberia? We provide the training, medications and clinical supervision for these health workers to treat patients with epilepsy, as well as patients with mental health disorders. In Liberia, health workers often think that when you are epileptic, you can be treated with phenobarbital. That’s why even though our idea was initially just to treat patients from Montserrado County, we are seeing people come from almost everywhere in Liberia.

Source: Front Page Africa February 03, 2020 22:18 UTC