Dr Tamsir Mbowe fired from president Jammeh's medical team
President Yahya Jammeh has dismissed Dr Tamsir Mbowe, director of medical and health department and the president's HIV/AIDS treatment center, Senegambia News has learnt.
Dr Mbowe, who had vouched for the president's widely criticized HIV/AIDS cure in 2006, w as later fired from his post as health minister. He was later appointed by the president to the posts of director of health and director general of the president's HIV/AIDS and asthma treatment center in November 2007.
The office of the president has not issued any statement on Dr Mbowe's removal, which occurred on Thursday, September 17, 2009.
Dr Mbowe will always be remembered in history as the only medical doctor who gave "one hundred percent credit" to a ludicrous and scientifically unproven herbal treatm
ent as genuine cure for HIV/AIDS. And on January 17, 2008, Dr Mbowe delivered the following speech at the July 22 Square when government officials out of fear, gathered there to celebrate what they called president Jammeh's breakthrough in medicine:
"Foremost, you are all cordially welcome to this unique and historic landmark occasion in the annals of Medical History - the celebration of a brilliant break through against the most formidable pathogen to confront modern medicine
No other public health emergency has been so challenging, so devastating and so far-reaching than the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.
The world was on the brink of a looming catastrophe with impending doom for developing nations.
The AIDS virus belongs to a group of viruses called retroviruses, a brilliant breed with which the scientific community has had limited exposure to. The world’s most elevated minds in the fields of immunology and genetics are still daunted by the morphology o f the AIDS virus.
It is at this stage of despondence, that our courageous and invincible leader decided to confront the pandemic head-on, in a manner that bewildered the whole world.
President Jammeh did not join fight against AIDS to create a name for himself, or amass wealth at the detriment of the poor, but rather to serve humanity, regardless of origin or denomination.
According to Mahatma Ghandi, “differential aptitudes and talents are gifts from God and should=2
0be used for the collective good”.
Paraphrasing Comrade Castro, “a revolution is a struggle, not a bed of roses.”
President Jammeh’s confidence in his mission, his absolute trust in God, his boldness in defying the furies of the critics, his modesty in victory -all these and others attest not to an aimless search for clues, but to a firm conviction that gave him the power to achieve a breakthrough. This achievement is two fold. First, it has proven that mentally, indigenous intellect is not inferior to foreign intellect.
Secondly, it has proven that for every problem there is always a way out. Your Excellency, this breakthrough has made you one of the Millennium’s most powerful advocates for social justice. And the doctor of the doctors.
The free-of-charge treatment package has restored dignity and hope to marginalised Gambians. They too are citizens of this work just as fully as any of us.
The o verall development agenda of government itself is essentially people-centered and revolves around the attainment of human wellbeing in its fullest sense.
Long live President and his family. Long live the Mother-Land".
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