Katim,
Your calculator has been properly used in school. I think they are underestimating our brains.We cannot use
guns, but we can calculate.
Thanks
Elhajj.

"Katim S. Touray" skrev:

> Folks,
>
> I have to say this:  did President Jammeh *really, really* deliver the speech below?
> If this was a speech he gave, then God help us; we're in BIG trouble.  Furthermore,
> I'd like to point out a few issues.  First, the claim that about 300 doctors for
> roughly 1.3 million people in The Gambia translates to "the highest doctor-patient
> ratio in the whole world" is totally false.  According to my calculator, the above
> numbers translates to a doctor-patient ratio of 3 doctors for every 13,000 (thirteen
> thousand) people.  This ratio, expressed in the standard number of doctors per 1,000
> (one thousand) people translates to 0.23 doctors per thousand, or about 23 per
> 100,000 (one hundred thousand).  Is this ratio the highest in the world?
>
> Well, according to the WHO (http://www-nt.who.int/whosis/statistics/menu.cfm), the
> number of physicians per 100,000 for The Gambia was 3.5 per 100,000, well lower than
> the figure above.  Even if we accept the figure of 23 doctors per 100,000 of the
> population, that is by no means the highest in the world given that Cuba has 530
> doctors/100,000.  All this talk is, of course, just that, talk, when you are sick and
> can't find or afford the drugs prescribed for you, or you can't communicate with best
> team of doctors surrounding you because they all speak Spanish, and you speak Jola.
> In short, we should take these numbers in perspective.
>
> Second, I found what is either a typographical error, an outright lack of arithmetic
> skills, or wishful thinking.  To quote from the speech: "From 1994 up to date the
> government has spent more than 100 million Dollars in socio-economic and
> infrastructural development. 100 million Dollars will be more than 15 billion
> Dalasis."  The above numbers just don't jive with reality.  The only way 100 million
> Dollars will convert to 15 billion Dalasis if there's an exchange rate of 150 (one
> hundred and fifty) Dalasis to the Dollar.  Given that current exchange rates are
> about 15 Dalasis, I propose that President Jammeh should have said 1.5 billion
> Dalasis.  Clearly, this is an order of magnitude less than what the speech claims,
> and I suppose warrants that his rhetoric be discounted by as much.
>
> I guess that's about all for now.  Have a great week(end), and best wishes.
>
> Katim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Malamin Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:38 PM
> Subject: Yahya Jammeh's Incoherent Speech
>
> > Jammeh Addresses the Nation - 1
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> > Posted to the web July 27, 2001
> >
> > Banjul, the Gambia
> >
> > Seven years ago a new era dawned, not only on The Gambia but also on the
> > African continent. The reason why we had to take the actions we had taken is
> > very clear to you. Today we are not here to do anything other than take
> > stock of our achievements, our trials and our tribulations or failures.
> >
> > Seven years ago around this time when changes had not taken place; we were
> > at the Denton Bridge. At that time the city of Banjul didn't have good
> > roads. Seven years ago there was no university in The Gambia. Seven years
> > ago there was no Kombo coastal highway construction. Seven years ago
> > Gambians watched television signals from Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Seven
> > years ago the majority of Gambians had no hope that they would even have a
> > good radio that will cover nation wide much more a university where all
> > Gambians, irrespective of political and social standing would have equal
> > access.
> >
> > Seven years ago the children in my village in the remote part of The Gambia
> > never hoped to see the inside of a high school even on excursion much more
>
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