My comment on some of Liberia Issues!!

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. 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. 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. I think Liberia should be turn over to a foreign western company if we want to save her and JFK hospital should be shut down immediately!!! 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 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is satisfied with, NOTHING all day long!!!