The objective
Liberia has made important gains in survival and access to health services, but maternal, newborn and child mortality remain unacceptably high. Distance from facilities, shortages of trained staff, medicine availability and weak referral systems continue to determine whether treatable conditions become emergencies.
The Weah 2029 programme would focus on strong primary care, safer childbirth and a dependable path from community care to hospital treatment.
Programme direction
Community health workers should be supported through predictable financing, training, supervision and supply systems, particularly where communities are far from facilities. Maternal and newborn care would be strengthened through antenatal services, skilled delivery, emergency obstetric capability, blood availability and reliable referral transport.
Essential medicine procurement and distribution should be digitised enough to identify stock-outs, delivery delays and consumption patterns. County and district hospitals would be upgraded against clear service standards rather than through isolated construction projects without staffing and equipment plans.
Public health surveillance, vaccination and emergency preparedness would remain core national-security capabilities, drawing on Liberia's experience with Ebola and other outbreaks.
What success should look like
Fewer preventable maternal and child deaths, shorter emergency referral times, better medicine availability, stronger community-health coverage and facilities that can demonstrate the services they are actually equipped and staffed to deliver.
Key Commitments
- Strengthen community-health financing, training, supervision and essential supplies.
- Build a reliable maternal and newborn emergency-referral network linking communities, clinics and hospitals.
- Digitise essential-medicine stock monitoring and strengthen procurement accountability.
- Upgrade county and district facilities against published service, staffing and equipment standards.
- Protect vaccination, disease surveillance and national public-health emergency preparedness.