All Hail to Liberian Health Workers

Thankink the Health Workers in Liberia for fighting ebola:

By Tom Kaydor/thkaydor@gmail.com

Dr. Brown and all those health workers who have paid the ultimate price with their lives as well as those who remain on the frontline must be commended. There are lessons to learn. Most of the health students in Liberia support their personal education. Now they are putting their lives on the line for our country like the military and police would do in time of national security crisis. Just as we pay from national budget to train the army and police, it is about time we consider free education for all health workers in Liberia after the ebola crisis. This will not only help health students whose academic sojourn is constrained by financial problems, it will also encourage more Liberian high school graduates to enter the health sector. From the ebola crisis, we must now know that health and education are very much important for nation building. If a population is sick, it cannot make progress. Imagine businesses and investments are closed, etc. People are stopping flights while others are abandoning their positions in government due to ebola. This should remind us that health is very much important. But how do we get professional health workers? We must provide for their education. This brings education as the most important priority for any given country. Henceforth, Liberian must take education and health as the two major obstacles to overcome if we must prosper, grow our economy and develop. This is the time to provide the millions of US Dollars to train Liberians in health and education. Free education for all from KG to 12 grade, free education for all health and natural science students. These are the programmes the government must focus on and lobby the international community to support after the ebola crisis, and I am quite certain that we now have more justifications to make such claims. These are programmes donors would like to support after the ebola, only and only if the people and government commit to this. Bravo to Liberia's brave health workers-the foot soldiers on the frontline against the invisible enemy. With God above, our rights to prove, we will overall prevail.