-Citizens Overwhelmed Of Free Surgical ServicesDoctors and nurses of the Liberia Surgical Outreach Program (LISOP), a group sponsored by Mr. Simeon Freeman, Chief Executive Officer of the Consolidated Group, after completing several surgical operations in Grand Kru, Nimba and Grand Bassa Counties, are to shortly begin another free surgical operation of hundreds of citizens in Lofa County.
During a one-week tour of the county to see for himself the plight of the people in that part of the country, and for the start of the LISOP’s ten days operation in Lofa County, Mr. Freeman informed the citizens on the importance of LISOP’s team coming in their county in a bid to bring relief to them, especially those facing surgical problems.
He urged them to utilize his initiative by sponsoring surgeons and other medical practitioners who will be in the county early August to handle their health problems, stressing, “These doctors, including well trained surgeons and others will be in your county to provide free surgical outreach services,” the LISOP financier said during his tour of the county.
Expressing their enthusiasms during the tour of the nine districts in the county, the citizens, including senior elders of most of the areas visited, thanked Mr. Freeman for his humanitarian gesture, and prayed that his support to the health sector of Liberia will move across the country for the benefit of those who cannot afford financially to cater to their own surgical problems. These free surgical services, according to the citizens provide them the opportunity they had been dreaming of. The citizens also expressed profound gratitude to Mr. Freeman for the humanitarian gesture being provided.
Residents of most areas also toured were seen in a poverty-stricken situation, as many of them, particularly women, could not afford to cater to their children due the lack of food and other necessities that can make them to happily sustain themselves as breadwinners for their respective families.
Mr. Freeman and his team’s tour of the entire county also saw deplorable condition of roads, where citizens were being deprived of better living conditions, and their livelihood hijacked by abject poverty.
The Liberian Government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) seem not to be impacting the lives of ordinary Liberians in that part of the country, where more hardship is being felt by the people routinely.
