The debate over the qualification of few medical practitioners who recently returned home from China after undergoing intensive medical training has intensified with a Chinese-funded group defending the Chinese trained Liberian medical doctors.
Recently Dr. Robert Kopto, head of the Liberia Medical and Dental Council (LMDC) was quoted as saying that Liberian doctors trained by China "are poorly performing on their various assignments in the country."
Other critics of the Chinesetrained Liberian medical practitioners, Dr. Nyaquoi Kargbo and Dr. Micheal Slawion were also quoted as making similar comments in the local dailies.
But during a press conference at the Sam's Barbeque Restaurant in Sinkor, Friday, the Liberia Chines Trained Scholars (LCTS) furiously refuted the criticisms as malicious, describing it as blackmailing the efforts of the Chinese government In Liberia.
Mulbah Johnson, LCTS's President, told journalists that the doctors' claims are "untrue" and noted that "it is a blackmailing campaign to denigrate and rubbish all the achievements the Chinese Government is making in Liberia."
"All we can say to the Liberia people and the world at large is that graduates from the People's Republic of China are well-trained in their respective professions that can propel them to meaningfully contribute to the rebuilding process of Liberia and must be given the chance to prove themselves as other countries are doing for youths.
"We will like Dr. Kpoto, Dr. Slawion, Dr. Kargbo and their likes to know that Chinese trained Liberian scholars will resist any attempt to use them as a conduit to express their anti-China sentiments," he said.
Johnson also said that no evaluation has been conducted for the three Chinese trained doctors who are currently in the country to enable them pass through their internship and subsequently graduate from their studies abroad.
Both Botoe Zinna and Clinton Garpeh, officials of the LCTS disclosed that the three doctors lack "evidence to substantiate their charges against" them and that their assertions "are out of nothing but mere envy and fear."
They expressed concerns over the "conspicuous silence" of the Inter-Ministerial Scholarship committee on the issue.
"What is more troubling, fellow citizens is the conspicuous silence of the Inter-ministerial Scholarship Committee, the Ministry of Education and the Civil Service Agency into this avalanche of unfounded and unnecessary outburst, leaving us to believe that this is an organized conspiracy theory aimed at targeting scholars from China," said Johnson.
They emphasized that there is much to be done in the country's various sectors including the medical area. They called on the Liberia Dental and Medical Board to afford their colleagues the opportunity to practice their professions so as to enable them complete their studies abroad as recommended, and serve as "huge boost to the health sector of our country."
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Most things that come from China are fake, and so are the Chinese graduates from Liberia! Liberia will be better service sending scholars to any other country but China. Today China is like Europe of the 50s, 60s, and 70s... It only cares about its own national interest and I don't blame them for doing so. If China believes that these scholars are qualified, why can the Chinese gov't allow them to do their clinical rotation in Chinese clinics?
In regards to your response Mr. Ignorance, Are you inform that all of your products imported from America, Japan and all the big name you so trust are produced in China and launched in these countries? Are you aware that many chinese universities also have professional exchange programs with USA and UK professors in their educational sectors as well as many Chinese Professors in the USA, UK, and other Europeans countries educational sectors? So your argument is baseless and you need to rethink while Africa including your underdeveloped country import what you called fake products from China.You need to know so can reverse your ideas and engaged the wrong concepts for change. Your business people buy from factories in china, those products you called fake are never available on the chinese market. They request their quality for cheap prices to exploit you. Do you blame China or your wicked and selfish countrymen?
About the Liberian China trained doctors, we hope we were granted the opportunity to studies in the USA, UK, Australia and other english speaking countries like Dr. Kpoto and his colleagues. We hope our parents were able to monopolize a job in Liberia to keep us in medical school in the USA like Dr. Kpoto. But we are more scholars to study in the chinese language and still able to communicate it in english. We are more scholars to study in a country where the academic competition is very high, where in the medical field the least pratictioner is a specialist. The issuue of practice is not because of being untrained it is the matter of competition. China has many specialized and postgraduate professional at the hospital ofcourse an MBBS students will have a minimum oppotunity to practice in such environment. Nevertheless, we are far better and we can do better. Do not politicized medicine, this is life matter. I rest my case a scholars dont worry about getting or keeping a job, but doing their job.....We are proud to study in china and we are not worry about job but the need of the Liberian people
Ballah(ausubala) you just said it all. The problem Liberia faces now is what I call the "Crabs mentally". In the crabs Kingdom the gyiant crabs disallow the small crabs to ascend. In short, Dr. Kpoto and the other Doctors want to disallow these sons and daughters of Liberia, the scholars to reach their height and even surpass. What a wicked mentality! Such behaviour is from the 'belly of the devel'. We are(Chinese medical students) what God says we are!
Ballah(ausubala) you just said it all. The problem Liberia faces now is what I call the "Crabs mentally". In the crabs Kingdom the gyiant crabs disallow the small crabs to ascend. In short, Dr. Kpoto and the other Doctors want to disallow these sons and daughters of Liberia, the scholars to reach their height and even surpass. What a wicked mentality! Such behaviour is from the 'belly of the devil'. We are(Chinese medical students) what God says we are!
In Liberia, there exist an evil behaviour wich I intended to call the "Crabs Mentality" This mentality which is now been practised by Dr. Kpoto and his collegues, states: where I am no one should reach me or better still if I can't rise, no one should rise. In the crabs kingdom big crabs disallow smaller ones from ascending. This is exactly what Dr. Kpoto and his collegues want to do to us, we the young Chinese trained medical Doctors. But let them know that we are what God says we are!