MONROVIA – With over 800-million-dollar budget of 2024 behind the Liberian people and a slightly higher budget just midwifed, experts are still asking if social services constitute a priority for the current political establishment. Meanwhile the country’s first and only dialysis center, which the administration inherited in less than 15 months, is on the verge of collapsing. As The Analyst reports, managers of the center who have tried times without number to reach President Boakai but with no avail are compelled to release an open letter to get his urgent attention and action.
Managers of Dialysis Center at the JFK Hospital are reporting the lack of supplies and that the center is on the way to becoming a moribund entity; courtesy of an open letter addressed to the President of the country.
In the opening letter, doctors administering the center said they are “deeply saddened, that issues that could have just been handled by the JFK Administration, we are being compelled to bring them to your attention, especially through this medium.”
And they said this is because, “we have employed all efforts to work with the JFK Memorial Hospital Administration to help address the appalling conditions at the Dialysis Center, including the long delays in the supply of consumables needed to treat patients, but unfortunately the leadership at the hospital is taking little or no concrete actions”.
The Renal Patients said: “It is now clear to them, the renal patients, that the one and only Dialysis Center, that was opened almost three years ago to help treat renal illness has now become a conduit for death and destruction because of the insensitivity of the JFK Administration.”
“This can also be attributed of poor leadership, incompetence or simply, that the JFK Administration just does not care,” the group said, indicating that because this is an open letter, “we don’t think it is prudent to discuss all these issues.”
They continued, imploring the president: “We are therefore appealing to you to please set up a small neutral committee to come to investigate the actual situation at the Dialysis Center and report back to you. Time is of essence as your citizens’ lives are at risks.”
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