A SENIOR CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN AT THE NRH SPEAKS HIS MIND SAYING IT AS IT IS
Solomon Islands does not have the capacity to handle a Covid-19 outbreak in the country if there should be any, says Dr Jones Ghabu.
Dr.Ghabu, senior consultant physician at the National Referral Hospital and head of internal medicine department, said this yesterday
“As someone working in the hospital and is treating people daily we do not have the capacity to treat outbreak in the country.
“This is the very reason why I appeal to you all to please; we must prevent Covid-19 entering the country and prevent community transmission to happen,” he said.
“If we cannot prevent it and Covid-19 came into the country either I watch you dead or you watch me dead that is the truth about our current situation.”
He on the same note calls for all to continue following strategies put in place by the Ministry of Health Medical Services.
Meanwhile it is separately reported that 17 docs working at the NRh are still refuse a Covid-19 vaccine
This is according to the chief executive officer of the NRH, Dr George Malefoasi.
He confirmed this yesterday during a press conference with local journalists at the Prime Minister’s Office.
He said there are 95 doctors from key departments at the NRH; of this total number, 17 doctor still refuse to get vaccinated with the covid-19 vaccines.
“Of the 95 doctors at NRH key departments 17 refused to take the vaccine. So, at the moment we are still talking with them but they still stand not to receive the jab.
“Out the 17 doctors three are from a very high positions and key decision maker clinicians in one of our key department at the NRH,” Dr.Malefoasi said.
He stressed they are looking at having another dialogue with them and also to engage international doctors to get the doctors to receive their jab.
“As a CEO I am very much concerned on three senior doctors from one of our key department, all the rest are junior registrars. These junior ones need to decide,” Dr.Malefoasi said.
Dr Jones Ghabu, senior consultant physician at NRH and head of internal medicine department, in a recent radio talkback show appealed to all doctors and nurses who have not yet had their jab to do so.
“I again asked all Doctors and Nurses who are unvaccinated in the country to please go get your jab because if there should be an outbreak of Covid-19 in the country all of us will be affected,” Ghabu said.
He said all individuals have the risk to get infected with the Covid-19 virus. The only way to minimise it is to get vaccinated.
Dr.Ghabu also called on all citizens in the country not to get manipulated by theories about the Covid-19; “theories are not truthful,” he said.
He uttered, “the truth is that people are dying everyday with the Covid-19 virus. The vaccine that we are trying to roll-out works and saves a lot people.”
Comment.
TheHippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount importance.
Might be inferred that the doctors at the NRH refusing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are in breach of the Hippocratic Oath they would have sworn to uphold?
Sources – Island Sun newspaper.
Yours sincerely
Frank Short
