Some have even averred that in times of crisis they will rather be treated on the floor than be turned away due to, “a lack of beds.” Forgetting that, just finding a place in emergency care is one thing but without oxygen, defibrillators, nebulisers and other basic critical care equipment, any health facility that just gave you a furniture space may actually be doing more harm than good...

Honouring our Parents Memory by Upholding their Principles of Life whilst Questioning their Beliefs

“For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue.” - Stefan Molyneux

It is now clear that there is considerable awareness of the menace of tramadol and other opioids. We are all aware of the impact it is having on our youth and the parallel society it is creating. However, we have failed to move from the awareness stage ....

Failing Our Youth by Ignoring the Death of Mockingbirds

Malcolm Gladwell in David and Goliath argues, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

In defence of our current strong link approach, some keep saying health care professionals are unwilling to go out of Accra or Kumasi but fail to realise we skew the law of natural selection towards attracting them to the centre by taking a strong link approach towards healthcare policy.

The Strong Link Theory; The Heart of Our Healthcare Equality Failure

In 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism, this favourite quote caught my attention, “Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.” Ha-Joon Chang

These bootlicking zombies go out guns blazing attacking anyone in their wake, stopping at nothing to even countenance reason and think that others should quiver.

I Was Not Made Like This; It Was Forced On Me

“There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.” Paulo Coelho in “The Devil and Miss Prym”