Our people in Liberia are suffering because NO ONE IN LIBERIA CARES for them. Do you know JFK is the world worst hospital to go to when ill? The hospital is filthy and smells like a sewer tank to say the least. When we (FELMAUSA Medical Mission Team) got to JFK, there were no gloves in the entire hospital, none at all we were told by Mrs. Willie, Procurement Specialist. JFK sent their patients out to buy their own gauge and gloves if they want services. There are no baby bottles in any of the hospitals in Liberia; mothers are training their new born to drink from a cup because they are not nourished enough to breastfeed their new born. I have pictures and fully plan on writing Mrs. Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson in the very, very near future.
No record keeping system at JFK, nobody knows who you are even though you may have been there a 100 times. Don’t expect the nurses to “feel your pain”, in fact, they don’t want you messing up their floor or clothes so they will not treat you until you clean up yourself first. Pehn-Pehns die like flies at JFK each and every day. 80% of JFK patients are pehn-pehns, ask Dr. Guizie. This, my friend is just the tip of the ice burg. Stay tune I have much more to come about Liberia and my 3 1/2 weeks stay there. In short, I wouldn’t take my 19 (human years) years old dog Trixie to JFK!!!
You think JFK is bad, trying using the bathrooms at any public offices or clinics in Monrovia; you will not be able to eat or swallow after. There are no working public restrooms in Monrovia, so people are using the outdoors as restrooms and guess where the rain water is taking their dunk, back into the water systems.
No one in Liberia will do anything for you if there is nothing in it for them, even your own family or closed friend.
The kids are not playing any more, too busy trying to survive so play time has been put on hold.
Liberians have turned themselves into “professional beggers”…. Honestly, I couldn’t take the daily begging any longer. No one wants to start a small business for themselves, begging seem to be easier…what a shame!!
Liberia is far more expensive then America, ask anyone who wants to tell you the truth!
The Senators, Ministers, and foreigners are the only ones with power and enjoying life in Liberia, but they are also the biggest criminals and break all the rules of law daily!
There are nurse aids in Liberia pretending to be doctors and writing prescriptions and have clinics all over the place. There are nurse aids operating on patients daily, this is why we are dying everyday!! We have Physician Assistant who cannot correctly check your blood pressure but will quickly try to perform a C-Section operation….scary!!!
There are Medical vehicles without gas and or working car battery parked “ready to be call in case of an emergency”, no lie, I live this one myself. Oh, don’t call the driver while he is eating, he will not move until he is done eating. Let not forget he can barely see!!!
Madam President hired those Senators and Ministers thinking they would bring their outside work ethic and experiences to help her rebuild Liberia, instead they parked their ethic and experiences at RIA and join the ones on the ground and nothing is happening. One senators office I visited had not one sheet of paper on his desk, not even a folder or pen, nothing, just fancy office well air conditioned. My question was, what do you do in here all day without any PC or paperwork? “I go to meeting everyday” was the answer I got!! Put a gun to their heads and they could not tell you what the meeting was about.
I think Liberia should be turn over to a foreign western company if we want to save her and JFK should be shut down immediately!!!
I feel your pain. I understand your frustration. I saw the same things on my last visit.
ReplyDeleteHere is my solution. I am now in the recruiting business. Recruiting and convincing Diaspora Liberians with expert skills to give up the "good life" in the US for a few months, or a year to do some kind of volunteer work in Liberia.
Monetary gains should not be a primary motivation. A patriotic and nationalistic spirit should be first, then fund-raising will come second for the financial support that it will take to help in the rebuilding of Mama Liberia.
We can do it. No amount of complaining and criticism while sitting in the US with all of its comforts will change conditions in Liberia. We must all rally our fellow Diaspora Liberians to return home and be the new visionaries of hope for the rebuilding of our country, Liberia.
I am going back to do my share of helping to rebuild Mama Liberia.