Folks ,
I urge you all to spread the message around to those
who could be of help to resque the situation . The
inmates need help urgently.
Chi Jamma ,
Bro Sheikh Tejan

--- Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Matarr and Abdoukarim,
> Thanks for the sharing your observation and efforts
> about Campama. Its
> great that the Independent Newspaper brings this
> topic again. Its very sad
> to read about the condition of the place and to see
> som many mentally
> retarded people working around in the streets.
> I remember the last time the issue was discussed her
> on Gambia-l I
> contacted the Friends of Gambia here in Denmark and
> was told that they had
> given some hospital beds to Campama.
>
> I received a mail from a good friend of The Gambia
> Susan Rowe who wrote
> that she would send the article to some of their
> local Psychiatric
> Hospitals and see if any of them can help.
>
>
> Momodou Camara
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 23:59:08 -0700, abdoukarim sanneh
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Matarr it did not surprise me too. Three years ago
> I wrote a piece on the
> Gambia-l title Gambia's forgotten citizens. Funds
> where raise in Gambia
> with Tijan Nyang and also one of my friends in
> Birmingham but the corrupt
> regime did not compliment such a good effort of
> concern individuals.The
> situation in Campama is dehumanising and more help
> is needed for the
> welfare of our brothers and sisters. The hardship in
> our country can even
> increase more mental disorder. Let us review from
> the literature of Frantz
> Fanon- The wretched of the earth on Algerian where
> he associated mental
> illness in that society with economic and
> psychological degradation in his
> capacity as a psychotherapist.
> >
> >Matarr Amadou Sallah <[log in to unmask]> wrote: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
>
>
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