Liberia Government (Monrovia)
27 November 2008
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has paid tribute to the works of Mercy Ships, noting that the progress the medical ship has made will be continued by the Government of Liberia.
The President spoke Wednesday at the Freeport of Monrovia when she paid a courtesy call on the management and staff of Mercy Ships to express appreciation on behalf of the government and people of Liberia for the Ship's humanitarian service to the country. The President commended Mercy Ships for touching the lives of Liberians who could not be reached by their government.
Liberia's partnership with Mercy Ships, an Executive Mansion release quotes the President as saying, is one of many partnerships which have been most effective. The Liberian leader noted that the US $11- million expended to keep Mercy Ships in Liberia as well as the projects embarked upon is worth more than the amount in terms of the profound change the facilities has brought to the lives of Liberians.
The Managing Director of Mercy Ships, Mr. Ken Berry, thanked President Johnson Sirleaf for her support towards the work of Mercy Ships in Liberia. Whatever success the staff of Mercy Ships achieved during its tour of duty in the country, Mr. Berry said, could not have materialized without the help and interest Liberians have demonstrated.
During its current tour of duty which ends shortly, Mercy Ships among other operations, carried out curative surgical interventions. The facilities successfully completed more than one-thousand cataract removals, two-hundred orthopedic surgeries, amongst others. The staff of Mercy Ships also trained 73 health workers in Royesville and 35 health volunteers in Tenegar, Montserrado County, where Mercy Ships recently turned over to government a clinic construction with the support of the entity.
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