There’s need Liberia has more Surgeons and skillsful doctors to adequate take care of its citizens and people dying from Surgical diseases, Dr. Camanor has alerted.
Speaking at the occasion marking the West African College of Surgeons (WACS) 62nd Annual General Conference in Liberia Dr. Sia Wata Camanor -Chief Medical officer and Deputy CEO for Health Services and Pediatrician at the John F. Kennedy Medical hospital called on the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS) to find more innovative ways to train more specialist doctors in the country to cater to the growing 4.5 millions population that is dying from abscission disease.
Dr. Camanor who also presided as the national treasury of the West African College of Physicians, said the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that one doctor to a thousand population, and Liberia has approximately 4.5 million people, and the fewer number of surgeons in the Country, makes it difficult to cater to the number of people dying from surgical disease.
She alarmed that the few Surgeons the country has, make it so much difficult for them to attend to almost everyone thus resulting to the numbers of deaths daily.
“You see there’s serious need to train more Surgeons, because many of our people die from incision diseases, which shouldn’t be, “our people often die from obstetric fistula, brain turmor, something that is disheartening, Dr. Camanor averred.
Dr. Camanor commended the Liberian Chapter of West African College of Surgeons and the Liberia College for Physician and Surgeon for making Liberia to host the 62nd Annual West African College of Surgeons (WACS) scientific conference, which will clearly boost the country health System.
“You see with this conference, very importants, it will help Liberia as a country, because we have some of the best surgeons across Africa visiting, which can help train, most of our surgeons, She added.
In support of Dr. Camanor statement, Liberia’s Health Minister Dr. Wilhemina Jallah as a proxy on behalf of President George Manneh Weah, said there’s need more surgeons be trained to help transform the health system.
Dr. Jallah, also express frustrations in the lack of stable electricity, which is hindering the work of the little few surgeons, Liberia has, making slowly the Health sytem of the country difficult.
In other words Dr. Jallah reminded surgeons and Physicians to live by the tenets of the Physician’s Oath, also called the ‘Hippocratic Oath,’ which enjoins them to be dedicated to the service of humanity.
For his part, the President of the Liberian College of Physicians and Liberia Country’s Representative of West African College of Surgeons (WACS) Dr. Robert M. Kpoto, acknowledge WACS for choosing Liberia to host what he describes as such an impactful Scientific conference.
Giving the rundown of the Seven days event, which was stage from 18th to 24th of March 2022, at the Ministerial Complex in Congo Town, Dr. Kpoto highlighted surgical outreach, carryout by specialists or surgeons visiting Liberia that cure patients of illnesses that could not otherwise be treated by Liberian Surgeons.
WACS is a professional organization that promotes education, training, examination and research in surgery in Africa. The college is the first organization to promote surgical subspecialty training in the region.
Its awards diplomas of fellowship in surgery and is one out of two bodies that accredits institutions to train surgical residents in member countries.
WACS is an association of more than 5,000 Surgeons from 15 countries (French/English), it was established more than 60 years ago and its purpose is to improve the health care delivery system in the respective country of the sub-regions.
Also speaking at the occassion, Africa Kids Operating Room Executive director, Rosemary Mugwe, is pushing for children’s surgery to be included at the center of healthcare’s promises across the region.
During her deliberation, Mugwe said the inclusion of children surgery at the center of health care delivery will help address the many challenges children faces and can be treatable.
“We are supporting countries to strengthen their health systems through infrastructure equipment and health workforce development through provision of scholarships for paediatric surgery training,” Mugwe stated.
“Our aim is for children to access timely, affordable and quality surgery for children, regardless of their social and economic background,” Mugwe said.
She maintained that every child matters; as such, no child should die or live in disability as a result of a surgically treatable condition.
The gathering brought together about 800 Specialized Surgeons from across the Sub Region of Africa to provide medical coverage for citizens in Liberia.
