{"id":240182,"date":"2026-08-02T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ma-juah-health-center-brings-lifesaving-care-closer-to-rural-communities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:16:54","slug":"liberia-ma-juah-health-center-brings-lifesaving-care-closer-to-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ma-juah-health-center-brings-lifesaving-care-closer-to-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ma Juah Health Center Brings Lifesaving Care Closer to Rural Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">For hundreds of residents from more than thirty communities along the Roberts International Airport (RIA) Highway, a routine medical check-up is often a luxury rather than a necessity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Distance, poverty and the high cost of healthcare have made preventive medical services inaccessible for many families in rural Lower Margibi County, leaving countless people to seek treatment only after illnesses become severe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">It is against this backdrop that the Ma Juah Memorial Health Center, through the Ma Juah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607310230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For hundreds of residents from more than thirty communities along the Roberts International Airport (RIA) Highway, a routine medical check-up is often a luxury rather than a necessity. Distance, poverty and the high cost of healthcare have made preventive medical services inaccessible for many families in rural Lower Margibi County, leaving countless people to seek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6561,5732,7621,11363,7103,5731,27383,4712,1107,19905,257,6309,254],"class_list":["post-240182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brings","tag-care","tag-center","tag-closer","tag-communities","tag-health","tag-juah","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lifesaving","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}