Popular Journalist and Lecturer, Sheku Putka Kamara has called on the Ministry of Health and the Road Safety to ensure vigilance in the execution of tasks. I did this in an opinion that was circulated on all media platform.

Below is the take of Putka;

The Ministry of Health and the Road Safety Authority should act NOW! I had a patient at one of the Wards at Connaught. She needed some oxygen to be admitted. The experience and exercise are unwelcoming to say the least. Foremost, I see a case of terrible management. Well, I did not in any way attempt to show or tell that I am Sheku Putka Kamara; and so, it was all good. We had to be asked to check for available spaces, as if the hospital cannot and shouldn’t determine that. Thereafter, one of the wards asked that we’d need to check for the availability of oxygen etc. How unfortunate? Those nurses sat comfortably and made those remarks. We had to be told by some other nurses from another ward that their colleagues needed to have done that job. To cut a long story short, there was some deficiency in the chain of communication and the implementation of certain policies. In other words, if someone’s life was to solely depend on any oxygen, the results may not always be pleasing if Connaught was at the centre. I urge the Ministry of Health and the Connaught leadership to look into this matter with a view to ensure that nurses and health practitioners in general remain professional and act in the best interest of humanity!

From health, let me move to Road Safety! Ah! The traffic lights and people. Without a doubt, serious civic engagements are needed on these street lights. From drivers to commuters etc, it’s obvious that a good number of us do not know and or understand how the street lights should really work. This is a terrific and terrifying situation. I almost ran into someone that had crossed even when the green light had shown. Imagine! We have drivers and riders that’d move even when the red lights are on. The problems are just too much. So, the Road Safety Authority should do something. Maybe the Ministry of Information and Civic Education and the National Council for Civic Education and Development should bring out proper messages to sensitize and accordingly inform all of us, again and again.

I am very sure that the above two matters SHOULD BE ADDRESSED AND NOW. I will be monitoring! We have a lot to fix, yes, but let’s see how things go with these 2…

Copy right –Printed in the Expo Times News on Monday, June 9TH, 2025 (ExpoTimes News – Expo Media Group (expomediasl.com)