Since March, about 1500 people, incluing five medical workers, have died of the Ebola virus in my Homeland of Sierra Leone. Why have the health systems in the Country failed us after billions of dollars in international aid has been Pure ? My Fellow Sierra Leonean, Our People are dying today because we didnt have anything we would call a health system. The Government cannot pour resources in for Healthcare because they are wicked to us the People. How can we have little health clinics with empty shelves, peeling paint? President Koroma best option is to Adopt Universal Care, restocked with the best medicines, nurses and doctors, and Continue to prepared for our next Generation. Ebola is a marker for corruption on high, just as entrenched poverty is a marker for corruption on high. In the great influenza plague of 1918, when twenty million people died worldwide, the great difference between a country that suffered greatly, like India, and a country that suffered little at all, like Denmark, was the strength of the middle class. The strength of the middle class is most commonly a function of public and private health, and clean, just governance. If we want to get serious about addressing the current and coming plagues, we must create universal access to quality health care, and that is only possible if the corruption that is now taken so much for granted can be eliminated. According to Transparency International – the origin of this pandemic – is ranked 150 out of 177 countries for corruption, while Sierra Leone is ranked 117 and Liberia is ranked 83. Improving the health systems in the most corrupt and poorest nations should be at the top of our To Do list. Taking actions is not simply the moral thing to do, it’s in our own best interest. Let’s start now, before the next virus, perhaps many times more communicable, rises up to challenge us all. What’s needed today is agile funding for health systems, both public and private. Where corrupt ministries are bound to squander funds, private centers must be built and staffed, funded by private donors and forward-thinking foundations. Where well-meaning ministries exist, their efforts must be bolstered with technology and management interventions – good, American-style management systems, such as the ones introduced so successfully in Rwanda. Where corruption is ended, prosperity thrives, and in a prosperous land, people can afford their own family health care. That is when they are safe from such things as Ebola. When they are safe, we all are safe – and only then. Corruption and Ebola are essentially the same hemorrhaging disease. If we cure corruption, we will have the healthy planet we all truly want and our children deserve. Hashim Williams Cincinnati OH USA
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 06:24:40 +0000
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