By Daniel Garteh|LPR National Correspondent
Sanniquellie_Some aggrieved citizens of Nimba County are calling for the removal of Dr. Saygbaye Vanyanbah Chief Executive Officer of the Jackson F Doe referral hospital.
Making the disclosure through a phone in programs on two local Radio Stations Voice of Tappita in Tappita City lower Nimba County and Radio Nimba in Sanniquellie the County’s Capitol, the citizens expressed their anger and disappointments over the manner the two confirmed Covid-19 cases have been handle in the county.
The citizens claimed that the two confirmed COVID-19 cases reported in the county have been recklessly managed by Dr. Vanyanbah and his team at the J.F.D hospital.
Recently, Nimba County recorded its second confirmed Covid-19 with a local Journalist who works with Voice of Tappita Radio.
The CEO of the regional referral hospital in lower Nimba County explained that Jeremiah Gayflor was tested positive of covid-19 went to the hospital on April 14, 2020 with stomach paning (running), weakness, and had Malaria 1 plus.
Dr. Vanyanbah further mentioned that journalist Gayflor specimen were collected and sent to Monrovia for testing while he was treated for the malaria and stomach complain and later discharged him on the 16th of April and told him to go home and isolate himself and stay away from gathering.
“On April 18, 2020 at 3:00PM, we received the result of Gayflor and called him to come to the hospital, upon his arrival; we decided to inform him that his result was positive and later isolated him”, he adds.
The JFD CEO asserted that their decision to allow the patient to go back in his community was as a result of lack of place to isolate patients.
The citizens through their calls said that it was unprofessional on the part of the hospital administrators to allow the patient to go back in his community without his result.
The callers of the Radio phone in programs lamented that unprofessional behavior of Dr. Saygbaye Vanyanbah and his medical team has pose serious health threat to the people of Tappita, as such, they do not have confidence in him to continue to provide health services to the people of Nimba.
Some of the callers further mentioned that the first confirmed case was very much complicated on grounds that the first test result came out negative, while they later pronounced him to be positive something they said was confusing and hard to accept by the common people.
At the Same time, angry citizens of Gair Town in lower Nimba County have file a lawsuit against the Administration of the Jackson F Doe referral hospital in Tappita for what they claimed as endangering their lives.
Speaking to reporters via mobile phone from Gair Town, Mango Wehyee a residence of town said that the hospital poorly managed the second confirmed Covid-19 case, by allowing the patient to freely move around in the community without knowing his test result.
Wehyee explained that their three count lawsuit was filed at the Zuolay Magisterial court. He revealed that they as citizens will pursue the case to the legal conclusion.
Meanwhile, District # 6 lawmaker Dorwon Gleekia is appealing to his citizens to focus on the fight against the coronavirus and drop the legal action against the J.F.D administration.
Representative Gleekia asserted that this is a critical period in the country that requires the collective effort all to combat the killer disease and overcome it rather than shifting blames.
