The Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Hospital.
Photo courtesy of John Osward Baysah.
Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Hospital
By John Osward Baysah
John Osward Baysah (M.A., Adventist University of Africa; Ph.D., Newburgh Theological Seminary) is executive secretary and Youth Ministry director of the West African Union Mission. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Adventist University of West Africa. He is married to Dr. Glory I. Baysah and they are blessed with four children.
First Published: April 22, 2022
The Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Hospital is overseen by the West African Union Mission. It is located at 12 Street, Gibson Avenue, Sinkor; 1000 Monrovia, Montserrado; Liberia.
The Cooper Hospital facility was owned and operated as a private clinic by the Cooper family of Monrovia, Montserrado County in Liberia. In 1986 the Cooper family sold the facility to the West African Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists when it was renamed the Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Hospital.1
The hospital has an excellent location on 12th Street, Sinkor, a metropolitan area of Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia. The facility includes a 45-bed room in the main building, and a 24-bed room in the Eye Center annex, which is less than a kilometer away from the main building.2
Several services are provided at the hospital on a 24 hours basis, including regular outdoor patients service and a five days a week Eye Center program. Other services include: primary care, surgery, laboratory services, and radiology. The average monthly flow of out-patients is over one thousand persons, while in-patients record about two hundred. Managed by an administrator, the hospital is staffed with about sixty-five employees, including a physician, physician assistants, nurses, laboratory technicians, accountants, and other support staff.3
Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Memorial Hospital was among the very few hospitals in the country that did not close its doors to patients during the Ebola pandemic that shook West Africa in 2014.4
Medical Directors:5 Dr. Langunea, 1986-1995; Dr. Russan, 1996-2000; Dr. Epharain Palmero, 2000; Dr. Nathaniel Mosqueda, 2001-2012; Dr. Lolita Largosa, 2013-2014; Dr. Momo Sonii, 2014; Dr. Gillian Seton, 2015-2018; Dr. Momo Sonii, 2018-Present.
Administrators:6 Adoley Sonii, 1995-2007; Lucinda C. Carter, 2008-2018; Jonathan Morris, 2018-Present.
Notes
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Joseph Vah, former finance manager of the Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Hospital and senior accountant of the West African Union Mission, interview by author.↩
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Ibid.↩
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Ibid.↩
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Ibid.↩
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Information provided from the hospital records by Mrs. Adoley Sonii, who was the first administrator of the hospital. Personal Knowledge of the author as the executive secretary of the West African Union Mission and board member of the Seventh-day Adventist Cooper Memorial Hospital.↩
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Ibid.↩