In-country Staff
Jeremiah Akoi BBA MBA
Finance Manager, MCAI Liberia
Jeremiah has worked for MCAI since 2012 and is based in Phebe Hospital, Bong County. He is also our in-country security officer. During the Ebola outbreak he helped to keep the programme going and supported our honorary medical director during visits to deliver urgently needed medical equipment, including a large oxygen generator system which provides oxygen cylinders for 4 main hospitals. He currently supports the training of the latest three trainee obstetric clinicians as well as managing the finances of our programme in Liberia.
Amos Davis BSc
Country Representative, MCAI Liberia
Amos has worked for MCAI since 2015. He is based in Monrovia and responsible for supporting the training of obstetric clinicians in Redemption Hospital in Monrovia and in CH Rennie hospital in Kakata. He also acts as the link person with our partners in the Ministry of Health, World Health Organisation and United Nations Population Fund.
Austine L.T. Menlor BBA AA in Program Manager and
Logistician South Eastern sector, MCAI Liberia
Austine Menlor joined the MCAI team in June 2019 as logistician for Grand Gedeh County, Liberia as part of our joint programme with UNICEF. This project involves setting up, running and staffing a neonatal unit and providing emergency comprehensive obstetric and neonatal care at Martha Tubman Hospital. There is also an outreach maternal health project to local community health facilities. Austine has previously worked in administration and financial roles for the African Initiative for Relief and Development, Last Mile Health and the American Refugee Council.
Nurse Jessica Fofana Diploma in Nursing
Data manager for maternal, neonatal and child hospital admissions and coordinator of maternal fetal monitoring in labour program, MCAI Liberia
Hasson Abdulkadir BNSc
Lead trainer advanced paediatric clinician training program in Liberia
Hasson Abdulkadir started working for MCAI in August 2021 as the lead nurse practitioner in MCAI’s advanced paediatric clinician training program based at Phebe Hospital in Liberia. Hassan is from northwest Nigeria and is happily married with two children. He has a vast experience in paediatrics having previously worked with MSF (Doctors without Borders) and other NGOs in northwest and north east Nigeria. In addition to his nursing qualification, Hassan has several postgraduate certificates including in the clinical management of HIV, mental health, epidemiology, emergency preparedness and the management of malnutrition.
Christopher F. Kendema BSc
Data manager
Christopher is a qualified nurse with a Bachelor’s degree in health sciences. He lives in Monrovia and is highly proficient in computing and in speaking and writing the English Language. His work involves the collection of data on the fetal monitoring program by mothers and loading the results into a password protected database. He also helps Jessica Fofana with encouraging mothers to be involved, helps the volunteer nurse aids who are involved in training the mothers to undertake monitoring of their unborn babies heart beats during labour.