Bro Matarr ,
I have not had about this land but i will find out
andinform you accordingly.However , we have just
formed a loins club branch in the Gambia and my fist
proposal is to assist Campama .
Chi Jamma ,
Bro Sheikh
--- Matarr Amadou Sallah <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There was a time when i heard that the psychiatric
> unit of the RVTH was
> allocated a plot of land and this was to be
> sponsored by the government of
> Denmark.
> Maybe Sheikh Tijan kan shed more light to this.
>
> Matarr
>
>
> >From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: FWD:Campama "Madness" Reaches Crisis
> Point
> >Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:00:21 +0000
> >
> >---------------------- Information from the mail
> header
> >-----------------------
> >Sender: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >Poster: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: FWD:Campama "Madness" Reaches
> Crisis Point
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >All, this story is among many many others in the
> Gambia. This is the
> >living
> >that a majority of Gambians experience daily. The
> rotten system is
> >grinding
> >to a halt. However, we can change that if we the
> people want to. Are we
> >willing to change our situation, that is the
> question. If so, our faith
> >rest in our very hands.
> >
> >Chi Jaama
> >
> >Joe
> >
> >
> > >From: Matarr Amadou Sallah <[log in to unmask]>
> > >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> > ><[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: FWD:Campama "Madness" Reaches Crisis
> Point
> > >Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 07:29:25 +0200
> > >
> > >Mo
> > >Thanks for this very important forward but
> honestly this doesnt surprise
> > >me.
> > >In 1999 when i was in the gambia i took a trip
> to Campama to see the
> > >working conditions down there. I am particularly
> interested in campama
> > >because since 1994 i have been working at a
> psychiatric hospital and for
> >14
> > >years ihave been working with mentally retarded
> people.
> > >I was in shock when i visited Campama, i was
> shown round by one Sister
> > >Tamba, the only psychiatric nurse in the Gambia
> by then together with two
> > >Nigerian ladies who were there for just a short
> period of time.
> > >The living conditions in campama is the worst i
> have ever seen. It is the
> > >first time in my life i see two patients of the
> same diagnosis or of
> > >different diagnosis sharing a single bed. They
> sleep in sardine
> > >position(one head up and the other head down)
> They smell each others
> >feet.
> > >At the rehabilitation unit, everything was at a
> standstill due to lack of
> > >materials and tools. The patients were hanging
> around the big mango tree
> > >and
> > >some were just roaming about the backyard.
> > >If thing have been going according to plan i am
> sure they should be able
> >to
> > >produce their own furniture or repair the little
> they have. Some of the
> > >beds
> > >were three legged and the fourth was supported
> but cement blocks.
> > >When i came back to Norway after my holidays i
> contacted the boss at the
> > >hospital where i work and explain the whole
> situation to her and
> >expressed
> > >how desperately they needed help. Unfortunately
> there wasnt much to do
> > >because they have this agreement with the
> psychiatric hospital in st.
> > >Petersburg in Russia.
> > >
> > >I am at work now and i really have to go but i
> promise i will write more
> >on
> > >this topic
> > >
> > >
> > >Matarr
> > >
> > >
> > >>From: Momodou Camara
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing
> list
> > >><[log in to unmask]>
> > >>To: [log in to unmask]
> > >>Subject: FWD:Campama "Madness" Reaches Crisis
> Point
> > >>Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:18:01 -0500
> > >>
> > >>---------------------- Information from the mail
> header
> > >>-----------------------
> > >>Sender: The Gambia and related-issues
> mailing list
> > >> <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>Poster: Momodou Camara
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > >>Subject: FWD:Campama "Madness" Reaches
> Crisis Point
> >
>
>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>
> > >>Campama "Madness" Reaches Crisis Point
> > >>
> > >>The Independent (Banjul)
> > >>NEWS
> > >>July 2, 2004
> > >>Posted to the web July 6, 2004
> > >>Banjul
> > >>
> > >>Campama Psychiatry's dearth of medicinal drugs
> to treat its mentally
> > >>deranged patients has reached crisis point with
> violent inmates, being
> > >>allowed to leave the country's only mental home,
> which is at its wits'
> >end
> > >>in dealing with the chronic shortage.
> > >>
> > >>Fresh reports reaching The Independent midweek
> allude to the fact that
> >the
> > >>overwhelming majority of Campama inmates with
> varying degree of mental
> > >>imbalance have been released back to the
> community as Campama grapples
> > >>with
> > >>the chronically acute shortage of drugs to calm
> violent fits of
> >patients.
> > >>Reasons being ascribed for freeing the inmates
> include the chronic lack
> >of
> > >>medicines and what close relatives of some of
> the inmates called the
> > >>skeletal staff who have been "mentally and
> physically overstretched" to
> > >>look after over a hundred patients. According to
> these reports only a
> > >>handful of inmates are left in the mental home,
> whose personnel recently
> > >>made plaintive calls to the Royal Victoria
> Teaching Hospital for the
> > >>provision of drugs to treat its neglected
> inmates. Due to the frequency
> >of
> > >>violence among inmates at Campama, the demand
> for nerve-calming drugs
> >has
> > >>been of permanent significance.
> > >>
> > >>"We understand and accept these reasons for
> these inmates being let out,
> > >>but imagine the danger these sick people pose to
> the society, women and
> > >>children especially. Many of these runaway
> Campama inmates can be seen
> > >>roaming our markets and other public places. Are
> we to sit and wait for
> > >>another disaster like the one which happened in
> Bakau, where two people
> > >>were killed by a mentally deranged man just
> months
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