On Ebola and differences… FCC dialogues with DHMT
The Freetown City Council (FCC) last Friday engaged the Western area District Medical Health Team (DMHT) on Ebola and challenging issues between councilors and health workers at the conference room of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, George Street, Freetown.
In his keynote address the first gentleman of the municipality Mayor Sam Franklyn Bode-Gibson (in photo) encouraged all that the meeting is a family affair meeting not meant to point fingers of blame but to bring out pertinent issues that will promote the cordial working relationship for the development of health in the municipality.
Mr. Gibson said, the local government act of 2004 empowers councilors to serve their people and not to be lords over their people. He applauded the role played by the health professionals and encouraged them to work assiduously and dedicatedly for a reward waiting for them in heaven.
He encouraged the councilors to have a pleasant working relationship with the health sector in their wards. He continued that discussing developmental issues on the ground is the pivot of decentralization and said is the only way Sierra Leone can be developed.
Mayor Gibson admonished all that Ebola is real and called on the health professionals to be proactive with sicknesses especially associated with the raining season and call on all to put shoulders to the wheel so as to contain the Ebola – scourge from entering the capital city of Freetown.
The mayor ordered the DMHT and FCC finance officers to collaborate as he said very soon the FCC and DMHT will be coming out very shortly to sensitize the municipality about Ebola. Mr. Mayor continued that the life of every Sierra Leonean is important, and for every life we lose tells on our human resource base and eventually drops us to the bottom of the human index ladder.
By: Tamba M. Musa
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