Malanding,


I completely agree with you, this is too serious and any serious journalist 
or media house should be very careful as to the way they report such 
madness. Neither to say it is an embarrassment to Gambia and the whole 
continent.  I think we are now coming to the conclusion that we are dealing 
with a mentally unstable President. This is the only explanation and I hope 
that the Gambia AIDS Commission will be bold enough to condemn this and 
bring the President back to sanity.

The job of the President is to make sure that the health care system is well 
developed and equipped  to address Gambia’s health care crises.    This is 
really insane!!!!


The Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh




The Struggle Continues!!!
Ndey Jobarteh

>From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Boro boro,  Koube jarra!! - Not at all funny!!!
>Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:45:59 -0500
>
>this is from The Daily Observer.
>
>Finally, we got something that will put our poor little Gambia on the map. 
>With this Boro boro koube jarra from our own Doctor J, The Gambia will soon 
>be Mecca for the world's 39 million people living with Aids.
>
>With that said I think Gambian media houses should exercise some restraint 
>as to what they publish about the President. HIV/AIDS is a very serious 
>global problem with about 40 million people struggling with the disease. In 
>2005 alone about 3 million people lost their lives to AIDS. Many of these 
>left behind shattered homes and communities. For a President of nation to 
>use the bully pulpit to claim that he has a cure for HIV/AIDS amounts to 
>calling fire fire in a movie theater. If Mr. Jammeh does not understand his 
>position as a President of a country then the people around him should.
>
>I am pretty sure that those who run media houses are dissent people with 
>Gambian values. These ask for them to use their best judgement and turn the 
>camera the other way if Mr. President decides to strip naked in public 
>during the next July 22 celebration.
>
>
>Malanding Jaiteh
>
>
>
>Jammeh starts curing HIV/AIDS patients today
>Written by Lamin M Dibba
>Thursday, 18 January 2007
>
>As the world’s scientists and medical doctors continue to scout for an 
>HIV/AIDS cure, which they have not been able to find for the past 20 years, 
>The Gambian leader President Yahya Jammeh yesterday disclosed that he has 
>the cure for the HIV/Aids pandemic as well as asthma.
>
>Today at State House, the Gambian leader will start the treatment of 
>HIV/Aids patients. His treatment of asthma patients will start on Saturday. 
>Below, we reproduce the full text of the Gambian leader’s statement on the 
>cure of the two diseases, delivered at State House at a ceremony attended 
>by the Vice-President, Secretaries of States and many dignitaries.
>
>“I call you to this meeting and maybe you will wonder why I called you 
>including the two Ambassadors from Cuba and Taiwan. I called the two 
>Ambassadors and of course Rose Clair Charles because you have a direct link 
>with the health delivery system of this country. You know that Cuba is a 
>key partner in our health sector and Taiwan is the force behind the Medical 
>Team in The Gambia. This is a follow up to what I said on GRTS that I will 
>now fully participate in the treatment of certain critical cases.
>
>Since 1994, there are many Gambians who know what I can do. A lot of people 
>have been treated in silence or under conditions of strict confidentiality 
>.One would wonder why I start giving medicine to the public and all of a 
>sudden stop. I have been having a lot of queries about that even after we 
>went to the RVTH on Saturday. People were saying, “Well, the President. 
>This is what he does. He will introduce very effective medicines and all of 
>a sudden it will die down and we will not have access to him.”
>
>I had to work on instructions. I don’t have the mandate to do it publicly 
>in great numbers. I was only restricted to a small number so as to be able 
>to prove to people that what I say is what I can do before I have the 
>permission to do it publicly.
>
>I am not speculating on my medicine. There are living witnesses to what my 
>medicine can do. As far as I am concerned it takes only five minutes to 
>cure asthma. I have other medicinal herbs that can take care of a number of 
>illnesses. One of it was the one that was sold publicly at the July 22 
>Square and the Serrekunda Police Station. But of course, it has to stop at 
>a point because I don’t have the mandate to go beyond that.
>I now have the mandate to cure people publicly under strict conditions that 
>I have to abide by otherwise I pay the price.
>
>Now I have the mandate to publicly treat all the diseases on condition that 
>the patient will be treated publicly. In fact, the first and the most 
>important condition is that the person must be diagnosed by a medical 
>practitioner or a medical institution. I am not authorised to treat anybody 
>who just feels sick without a doctor’s confirmation. I can treat asthma and 
>HIV/Aids and the cure is a day’s treatment. Within three days the person 
>should be tested again and I can tell you that he/she will be negative. 
>After the treatment, they have to go to the RVTH for a test again. As I 
>said, I will not treat anybody who is not diagnosed as asthmatic or a 
>HIV/Aids patient by a doctor. I don’t want to give my medicine to a wrong 
>person.” So the reason why I called you is that I have to work with a team 
>of doctors that I can trust. Doctors who will not sabotage my treatment. 
>That does not in anyway mean that I will give them the medicine. These 
>doctors would make sure that the patients abide by the instructions. If I 
>give you the medicine with instructions on how to go about it and you go 
>and do something contrary to that and you turn out to be positive ,don’t 
>blame me. I will not give you names but it is true. It is not a treatment 
>that I speculate on. I am not doing it for money or popularity. The mandate 
>I have is that HIV/Aids cases can be treated on Thursdays. That is the good 
>news and the bad news is that I cannot treat more than ten patients every 
>Thursday. There is nothing I can do about it and if I go beyond that I will 
>have to pay the price.
>
>For asthma, I have to choose between Saturday and Friday. I am also not 
>authorised to treat more than 100 people. I am also not authorised to treat 
>anybody who does not produce a diagnostic paper of asthma or HIV/Aids. One 
>will asked what the Cuban and Taiwanese ambassadors are doing here. The aim 
>is to share the treatment with them because in Taiwan traditional medicine 
>are used. The asthma medicine can be mass produced and packaged and 
>exported to them. The one on HIV/Aids cannot be mass produced because I am 
>restricted to ten patients only on every Thursday and I cannot go beyond 
>that. I want to have a team of three doctors for asthma and HIV/Aids. I 
>want you to select ten HIV/Aids patients: five males and five females for 
>Thursday.
>
>The conditions should be explained to them before they come because if any 
>of them backs out, you cannot replace the one that has backed out. They can 
>eat before coming but they should not eat anything that is oily. The 
>medicine will be given to them in the morning as a preliminary and after, 
>they can eat and in the evening they take it again. Once that is done, they 
>cannot eat anything else the following morning. They may be hungry and 
>thirsty but they have to bear it and that is why they need a doctor to 
>monitor them. Once they have taken the medicine, they should not eat 
>anything no matter what happens till the following day.
>
>Now with regards to asthma treatment, that is the easiest part. When they 
>are coming for treatment in the morning, they should not eat anything that 
>has pepper or seafood when they take the medicine, for four hours they 
>should not eat anything. After that they can eat anything except something 
>that contains oil or seafood. We want to see how we can work with the RVTH 
>to see where these people can be kept until the following morning.With 
>regards to asthma treatment, there is no need to keep them. They can go for 
>six months, without taking anything that is alcoholic. With regards to 
>HIV/Aids, they should be kept at a place that has adequate toilets 
>facilities because they can be going to toilet every five minutes.
>Anybody who says he will not be treated publicly should stay away because I 
>have to fulfill the conditions and I will not take risks for anybody.
>
>I am not a witch doctor and in fact you cannot have a witch doctor. You are 
>either a witch or a doctor.
>
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