-Traditional Chief Zanzan Karwor not happy with Gov’t
By Mark Mengonfia-mmenginfia@gmail.com
Some pregnant women and young baby mothers on Monday morning placed roadblocks at the Du- Port Road Health center in the Monrovia suburb of Paynesville in demand for treatment, as health workers in the country carried out their threat to strike for pay and in opposition to the CDC government’s salary harmonization scheme.
The women with their babies have gone at that government health facility early Monday morning to seek medical attention.
Few of the women who spoke with www.newspublictrust.com on Monday said that when they went for treatment early this morning, there were denied entrance to the building on grounds that government has not paid them (Health workers).
The women alleged that one of their colleagues, whose name they did not mention, was in labor pain when she was asked to leave the health center.
“Our friend’s water-bag burst while she was standing outside,” one of them remarked.
The pregnant women and young baby mothers decried the poor level of treatment they receive at that government hospital in Paynesville, one of the cities in Liberia.
The women and girls were heard chanting: ” We want treatment” while others were saying ” we will not leave until we are treated.”
As they sat and demanded treatment, the Chairperson of the National Council of Chiefs and Elders, Zanzan Karwor arrived and spoke with authorities at the Du-Port Road Health Center.
Chief Karwor in an interview after his brief discussion with health authorities said, seeing pregnant women and babies mothers in the streets does not speak well doe the country.
The Liberian transitional head in his broken English said, ” I am going to meeting with Dr. Jallah for us to see how these people can get from the streets. While our president in the United States and all these things happening behind him is not good,” Chief Karwor.
Liberian health workers on Monday carried out their go-slow action threat, due to the ongoing harmonization process that is currently taking place in Liberia.
The protest as it stands is concomitantly taking place nationwide and the one hope that remains is for government to settle the payment of health in a timely manner
The traditional leader said that with the wave of things, Liberia will not get help if negative images are always out there.