Is it JFK that we are talking about at this time?

So you are saying…

Its ok for a nurse aid to perform surgeries on helpless patients?
Its ok for the doctors working at JFK to take the medicines meant for JFK patients to their clinics?
Its ok for those innocents pehn-pehn to die daily because there is no doctor knowledgeable or medications to handle head trauma and they are left to bleed to death?
So it is ok for our senior citizens to sit in the hallway floor of JFK begging doctors for pills because they could not afford to pay for it.
And it is also ok with you that our babies are dying from simple illnesses like high fever or some idiots not cutting the cord correctly?
It is ok with you that a major government hospital did not have any gloves or gauges in the entire hospital and the clinics are reusing theirs?
It is ok with you that the nurses cursed at their patients and treat them anyway they like. Telling a patient in labor to “shut the hell up”?


I am sure knowing how you feel about your Liberian people make you sleep sound at night! If this is how you show that you love your people, please take me off of your “love my people” list.



The next time you are in Liberia and having chest and neck pains and think you may be having a heart attack, call the medic (911 works in Liberia as well) truck to take you to JFK. Oh, make sure you have gas money and a car battery on hand for the truck and also make sure you have the heart attack before you get to JFK or you will be sent home. JFK only takes you after the heart attack not before. One of my aunts did not know this and had a heart attack on her way back from been turn down at JFK.



As for me, Liberian hospitals and clinics drums will beat until those good-for-nothing senators and ministers either start to fix the problems or take sleeping pills to sleep at night!!!


The middle of the day, see this senator’s desk, does it look like anything is getting done in here? This is how most of their offices look, nothing going on. Oh, don’t waist your time sending them emails, they told us they don’t open it because it takes too long. Attachment, forget it. We (FELMAUSE team) sent all of the doctors and nurses documents via an email attached to the minister to health thinking that by the time we get there, the nurses and doctors temporary licenses to practice in Liberia will be ready. NOT the case, the minister himself sat with us and told us they don’t open their emails, it takes too long, that they needed hard copies before we could start work.



Now take a look at the minister’s secretary, what is she doing?......That’s right, taking a nap after watching a movie, see the TV. They were watching one of those Liberian movie during work hours in the minister’s office area. Look closely at the clock, its 2pm. And this was going on while we were there, just imagine what happens when no one is around.

They are doing exactly what you are satisfy with, NOTHING all day long!!!



Have a good day!



From: Morris Kanneh
Subject: [alja1] Is it JFK that we are talking about at this time?

Are we talking about JFK hospital here ? Has it been any better with any administration than it is now? Was the naked name "Just For Killing" given to the hospital during the 80s because of its viability or because its deficiency? Did we expect anything good this early out of the Liberian health system after a 14-year war?

"When head burned do we expect to see a bushy beard after"?

Are we cognizant of the warning from the then Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen, that if we allowed ourselves to fight for one year we would go backward for another 100 years?

Don't we know that we have just gone six years of those predated 100 years and we are talking about the unfitness of just a hospital so soon? We need to be fair to ourselves mannnn.



Our people say "When the child sees his grand father kissing his toothless old wife, he wonder's why his grand father wasted his money marrying such a tootles old woman". What the child failed to know is that the grand father had been kissing this ground mother's mouth when it was full with teeth as she gradually lost them. And so the ground father is now adjusted to his toothless old lady and has forgotten that she ever had tooth in her mouth before. So yes, the child is right, he was not around when the ground mother was regarded is a beauty during her days, he only saw her toothless



This goes to those who now see JFK as a dilapidated hospital after a long stay in the United States where the health system is developed to its highest, coupled with the destruction from the civil war. Of course JFK will be nothing more than a place where someone living in the World's more powerful country can allow his/her dog to be treated. But like our people say " The tweedy bird's nest might look small to you, but that is exactly where she raises and initiates her chicks." And so JFK remains a savior to those who can not afford to come to University of Penn Hospital for hospitalization. Prayerfully, those critical impediments you referred to will encourage Well Manning Liberians Like those of FELMAUSA to do more as opposed to empty criticisms.



This is one reason while I will keep holding my hat up for the Federation of Mandingo Association in the Americas for its far sighted humanitarian services to the health system in Liberia. If each and every organization was following FELMAUSA's footsteps, maybe not only JFK, but other health centers in Liberia would have been fit to treat not only our puppies but even ourselves.

I hate to make sweeping comparison, otherwise I was in one of the neighboring West African countries that did not go through civil war like we did few years ago, and I saw people taking their patients from a major hospital in that country to Liberia due to the backwardness of their health system.

This reminded me about the man who decided to kill himself because he was poor. As he was knotting the rope to hang himself, another poor man who was naked asked him to please donate his torn pants to him so that he can at least cover his front from to avoid the public reticule he was going through. The man hanging himself quickly took his nick from the rope and thanked God for the torn pants he had the opportunity to own, and prefer living to death.

LIBERIA will triumph my people.



Sekou