Governor
Bakary Sanyang of West Coast Region went furious with some Gambian social media
fanatics whose posts he said mainly lack originality and intended negativity
towards addressing the country’s current situations.
Mr.
Sanyang said Facebook and other social media are saturated with immature posts
on daily basis which cause confusion in minds to others, especially the
uneducated ones about the current affairs of the country. “If you change
nothing; nothing will change. People will see situations and instead of trying
to fix them; they will post them on Facebook and give a negative image to it or
blaming the government.”
He
was speaking at the Brikama District Hospital recently where he presided over
the laying of a foundation stone of a new maternity operation theatre funded by
Join Hands to Save a Baby project of Amie Jarju; a Gambian based in the United
Kingdom.
Brikama
hospital is the busiest maternity unity in the entire country, according to the
hospital’s officials with over 200, 000 people accessing health treatment
there. The region’s population is on the increase and so is the hospital’s
coverage.
“There
is no way that government funding can sustain all the needs of the people. If
you come to the hospital and found a patient lying on a bed without a seat, go
and buy and seat instead of posting that on Facebook and blaming the
government,” Governor Sanyang said.
Health
Ministry’s Deputy Permanent Secretary Janko Jimbara, said his ministry and the
government are committed to deliver affordable, accessible and quality health
care to Gambians but said achieving that would first require peoples’ change of
mind set towards development.