JFK wants Boakai to prioritize health practitioners’ development
By Lincoln G Peters
John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital Chief Executive Officer Dr. Jerry Brown has urged President-elect Joseph Nyumah Boakai to prioritize and invest in the human resource capacity of health practitioners across the country.
Speaking in an interview with journalists recently, Dr. Brown urged the incoming Unity Party-led government through President-elect Boakai to pay attention to the development of specialization in the health sector.
According to him, Liberia will have a robust and improved health sector if the incoming government can focus on the development of the human resource development of health practitioners across the country.
“With the incoming government, one of the things I will say is, pay keen attention to human resource for health,” he said.
“Developing our human resource, and manpower capacity with specialties will help us have a vibrant and improved health sector,” he stated.
He urged the incoming government to build the infrastructure and bring in all of the sophisticated equipment.
Brown stated that when you don’t have the right human resource capacity, the country still has not done anything.
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He also commented on some improvements at the JFK under the six-year administration of outgoing President George Manneh Weah.
Dr. Brown said there are lots of significant developments that came about in the health sector under the leadership of President Weah that can’t go unnoticed.
According to him, in the past five years, particularly the JFK where he presides, they put into place for the first time, an intensive care unit.
“Before taking over, there were no intensive care units at the JFK. Today, we can boast of a functional intensive care unit which has saved many lives,” he said.
“Many Liberians are alive because of the existence of that intensive care unit. We also just brought a pathologist unit, modern trauma unit, among others,” he stated.
According to him, they have also brought in several foreign consultants to care for Liberians in different specialties which prevent Liberians from leaving the country to seek medical attention outside.
