The administrator at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Monrovia has alarmed over the shortage of medical drugs at the institution, and called for an urgent need to assist the hospital.
The JFK administrator’s assertion comes several days after a number of persons reportedly died at the hospital as a result of a fatal accident that occurred along the kakata-Monrovia Highway.
The devastating situation has, again, exposed many contests facing the Liberia healthcare system, with the consideration that urgent action is needed to be taken in order to address the shortage of medical supplies at the country’s biggest referral facility.
The United States government, through USAID Director to Liberia, Jim Wright, has said that over 90 present of drugs donated to the Liberian government has been stolen and/or sold illegally.
Wright said while important medications are often lacking in public health facilities, the same items can easily be found in private pharmacies around the country.
“Parents who do not have enough money are left to suffer,” a parent of a patient at the JFK told the Hot Pepper reporter.
As if buttressed by this revelation, the JFK administrator further said that up to the time of the arrival of the accident patients, the hospital had run out of medical supplies.
The administrator admitted that “our doctors and nurses are doing their best with the limited resources available to them, and they are stretched to their limit and are working overtime just to ensure lives are saved”.