Yus, Ciise, Jabou and Habib
Thanx you all very much for your concerns.
The whole experience has left me deeply frightened and shocked so much so
that
I could not even manage to go to work today.

Developments
I just spoke to my family again as Bekai was eventually seen to in a clinic.
He has not fractured his skull as we feared(thank god). The profuse bleeding
was in fact as a result of a very deep gash to the head. He has lost two of
his front teeth though, but we are all glad that at least he is alive. A
dentist
had done a preliminary examination of his remaining teeth and it seems as if
the rest of his teeth
are intact. There undoubtedly would be lot of mental and physical pain for
him to endure, but
am just glad that god saved my little brother.

once again thanks for all your support.

Manneh


-----Original Message-----
From: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Yusupha C. Jow
Sent: 16 May 2002 14:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The Phantom Hospitals and soccer-crazed Doctors


Dave:
As KB likes to say, 'you cannot have a bunch of mental midgets doing the
jobs
of giants.'

Whatever happened to doctors and technicians on call, or are Gamtel pagers
and/or cell phone a thing for rich Gambians only?  Simply put, the health
authorities should make sure that there is a way to contact every single
essential staff on the numerous occasions when they will be needed for
emergencies.  But then again, the measly salaries made by nurses and other
staff in public health does not justify racing back into the hospital at all
hours of the money.  Compound this with the lack of beds, lack of qualified
doctors, and lack of equipment in these 'big' hospitals, and it becomes
pretty clear that we need a few heavyweights to go into the country and
completely overhaul the way the healthcare system is run in the hopes of
finding a much better and efficient way of doing things.  I know of quite a
few Gambians - even on this list BTW - who are capable wherewithal to
undertake study the feasibility of such reforms.

Dave, I hope your bro gets better soon.  What he went through is totally
uncalled for and should not happen to anyone under any circumstances.

-Yus

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