PATHETIC.
What kind of a leader boasts about a statistic such as Doctor-Patient ratio? No wonder Yaya takes credit for the (worthlessly) high ratio. I wonder if the number of doctors used in the ratio are all state(taxpayer)-educated and state(taxpayer)-employed working in state(taxpayer) hospitals, dispensing medicine from state(taxpayer)-stocked pharmacies. That is the difference between Teacher-Student ratio and Doctor-Patient ratio.
How many of the doctors in the ratio were given state or government scholarships for their education or residency? And if the number of doctors in the ratio represents only doctors working in state hospitals(impossible), wouldn't a better measure of their performance be: low infant mortality rates, low morbidity rates, lowered malaria-related deaths, or lower deaths resulting from highly treatable infections by cheap and widely available drugs as the other countries with lower Doctor-Patient ratios are content with? When these boneheads compile data and infer excellence by pronouncements such as "The highest Doctor-Patient ratio in the world", do they ever sit and think of what the statistic means or of what value to their population it is? Purely sickening. This is what ill-education and mis-education yields. You never will hear other countries process statistic such as Doctor-Patient ratio without qualifications. It is meaningless and inconsequential. I'm sure Gambian doctors are not proud of such a statistic.
Matkhafish min rabbak???
Haruna Darbo-SONS OF AFRIKA
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>Subject: Re: Yahya Jammeh's Incoherent Speech - The Untruths
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>I simply don't know where to start.
>
>1. According to AJJ, if it were not for his regime, the united Africa idea
>would have been still on the back burner. Hmmmmm...
>
>2. According to AJJ, Gambia, 7 yrs ago, had one doctor per 100,000. Now they
>have 250 and, according to his knowledgeable Sir Mansa, this gives our
>country the highest doctor patient ration in the World. Hmmmmmmmmmm...
>
>3. According to AJJ, his regime's promise of providing electricity to the
>majority of the Kombos was the result of UNPATRIOTIC Gambians by signing
>contracts with less than worthy companies. And therefore, the 22nd July
>celebration was justified this time around despite his promise not to
>celebrate the occasion if this promise was not met. Talk about passing the
>buck!
>
>4. According to AJJ, his constitution is the way forward. How about all
>those indemnitiy laws and draconian decree which our lawmakers so willingly
>sign? Is this really the way forward?
>
>5. According to AJJ, Gambian men have to be blamed for declining morals in
>the country because women do all the work. In short, he said that men are
>lazy and hang out at the Bantab drinking Attaya. Has his honorable Mansa ever
>heard of the term 'high unemployment rates'. Perhaps this can explain why
>men have noting to do?
>
>6. According to AJJ, seven years ago the Gambia was not even recognized and
>we had no voice in Africa, and by virtue of his ties with Libya, our country
>is now more recognized. What a joke!
>
>Folks, I just don't understand... 7 years from now, he will still be
>comparing the APRC's rein to that of the PPP..
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