PHOTO: L-R, The deceased Health worker and wreakage of one of the vehicles involved in the fatal road crash
Reports from the Gbarnga-Ganta highway in central Liberia say an assigned health worker in Grand Kru County, a pregnant woman returning to Maryland County and seven others were killed in tragic road motor accident over the weekend.
The physical impact of the collision between the two vehicles was massive.
The accident occurred around Baila, the border area between Bong and Nimba Counties on Saturday, January 9, 2021 during the daylight hours, a number of miles outside the central Liberian city of Gbarnga in Bong County.
Eyewitnesses on the scene of the accident were quoted as saying, the commercial driver from Monrovia heading to Ganta was on a telephone call, which landed him on the opposite lane and when he realized it, he attempted getting back on his lane. But he collided head-on with another commercial taxi coming from Ganta to Monrovia on excessive speed, reportedly running into the taxi heading to Ganta.
Another report says that the health worker Mrs. Teta Karhwoo Morris who was involved in the tragic motor accident is a registered nurse and she was a UNICEF supported County health services supervisor assigned at Bewahn health center, Trehn health District, Grand Kru County.
The Community Health Services Supervisor (CHSS) came to the Nation’s Capital Monrovia to join her colleagues to protest on grounds of UNICEF and Ministry of Health in demand of nine months salaries owed a seven hundred community services health worker in southeastern Liberia.
The protesters partner (UNICEF) and the Ministry of health came to one agreement to pay three months salaries owed by UNICEF and its partner MOH with a commitment to pay the remaining six months between January 2nd to 31st 2021.
The total number of person that died in the accident are nine persons and six on critical list at the Phebe hospital in Bong County. Both vehicles involved in the accident got damaged beyond deplorable condition but the driver heading from Monrovia to Ganta also died.
Meanwhile, some passengers from both vehicles died but the total number that died from each vehicle is unknown and bodies are yet to be identified by family members. Report by Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com