GIVING THANKS TO JOHN GREEN AND HIS TEAM FOR GREAT WORK

I'm doing great. I'm so happy. I'm giving thanks to John Green and his team for the great improvement, you know. Although people are going through challenges within Sierra Leone, John Green and his team are working very hard to see the progress. I'm so happy for that. Yeah. So yeah, do you have a topic for the stream or what are we going over today? I have a topic for this live. The topic is working towards improving Lark Hospital with the help of PIH because when I visited the Lark Hospital, the majority of the patients although the PIH are trying their best, but they have some complaints they offer. Yeah. So do they have a fundraiser or something going on right now where people can contribute? Yeah, I would love to do that, but I don't know. I want to communicate to John Green before because people, I want to do my own appreciation. You know that I've gone through that same constraint they are going through. I want to do my own appreciation, show love to them and give them hope that they can do it because I've gone through it. They can get out from there with patience and love. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Tuberculosis, it's an awful thing and not many people are aware that it's still a problem. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting that one of the most curable diseases is still killing millions of people. Millions of people, yes. Yeah. People, some of them say that when things go through in the hospital, they have challenges. They think about, oh, can I survive? They have that thought, you know, but when I went there, I gave them hope, say yes, they can do it, and although they complain too much of constant, but to pray that all things will be good again. Yeah. Yeah. Talking about the hospital, the hospital is on project right now, building a quarter for some patients. Yes. Yeah. Well, it's good that they're consider about the patient, their well-being. Yeah. Because, you know, I was there too. I have some experience because I'm talking about the drugs. The drugs is so good for them. Taking is AM. They should wake up to take. They explained to me, sometimes they go out to find food outside the hospital. Some market people will not. Some market people will not give them food. Yes. Yes. That is a constant going to the actual constant. So, yeah, that gives them to the page because the page is working their best to provide. Well, they're doing great work, and I heard recently that Johnson & Johnson has agreed to not repatent their bedaquiline drugs. They'll be more easily available. Majority of them are going too much of course, because my mom was there for me. Although I speak to them, they give me their own intake. Yes, they're constantly going through and they give them to the nurse and doctors, although they are having some challenges. Well, the good news is it's going to be a lot. Partners in Health is getting a lot of help with Johnson & Johnson and other companies being able to make generic medicines. It's going to make everyone's life easier. Yes, because let us consider about the drugs. Majority of the drugs have a reaction, you know, especially when you take that drug in the morning hours at five. When you take the drugs and they give you the injection, you don't have food to eat. It reacts to you. It makes the system not to, because the drug is so heavy, you know that, right? Yes, so I'm planning on, especially the food, the food. Majority of them don't have the option to provide food for themselves. I see, I see. They need more food resources as well. It's not just the drugs. Yes, more food resources, because, you know, when you have food, you consume more food, the drugs will work within the system perfectly. That will lead to a great improvement in the health system in this disease, because when you some of them take heavy drugs or in the morning hours, don't have upper hand to take, eat something, it gives a reaction. Got it. And that is not good for their health, yeah. So, the PIH has stepped in to support. We need to put hands together and help the PIH to provide more food. The food is the constraint. Yes, food constraint. Got it. Yeah, because when I went to the hospital, majority of them happy to discharge. Yes, they're happy to go home, but some of them said they are going home, but their family members, what a reaction their family member would give to them. They think about the outcome, because their family member has already concluded this disease is very dangerous, it can spread easily and they can be affected. Some of them said that maybe their relatives will not accept them in home. Some of them think about the settlement after they go out, they are settled from friends, relatives. They were thinking about the reaction of the people outside that already know that they have this disease. They are thinking about that. That is not true. We need to create a space wherein we can provide a working space or a settlement for them if they want to go back and their community, wherein they want to stay again, because of the stigma. You know, the stigma is very harsh, because people will think that after they have gone through the treatment, maybe when they come close to the disease, we know that when they are going through this treatment, the disease is banished forever. So, we need to create a space where after they are gone, we need to provide for them. They know about this. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think what I think is that, you know, it's a whole tuberculosis. It's drug-resistant tuberculosis. It's just so different, the treatment. And so, I mean, I think it's just difficult to spread the new vaccine so quickly, just spread the treatment. I mean, we've had Bedaquiline for years. It's disappointing that it hasn't been able to spread everywhere. Not everywhere, but where it needs to be. And so, I'm glad that Johnson & Johnson has come to their senses and is sharing that. And I'm excited for generic medicines, medicines of Bedaquiline to distribute to where you're at where other people need it as well. And PAH is doing a great job. Partners Health is doing a great job. Yeah. I'm excited they're going to get more support. And I know you are too. I know Lekha Hospital is as well. Yeah. Do we know how long it will take for the genetic medicines to be developed? That's a good question. I assume it will be fairly quickly, but I mean, you'd have to ask a medical professional on that one. But I would assume very quickly within weeks, months, possibly less. The distribution is what's probably going to take the most time. I mean, for COVID at least, the vaccine was developed in some prototype form in three weeks. The distribution, testing, that's what takes the most time. Families staying with them, giving their drugs to the patients, you understand. And they need to be appreciated too. The nurses are extremely underappreciated. I know they're doing great work. I've seen the footage. They're incredible. My hat's off to them. John, for that great improvement about the drugs. I hope the drugs will meet the right people in the right place, especially the poor countries, Sierra Leone, Gap, other African countries that need these drugs. Because we need to save lives, you know. I'm so happy me talk about these things that it can be cured. Although we are having some things, I don't care about that, you understand. What is the right thing to put, talk about the thing, the awareness about this disease, and help to save lives. Because majority of them, not only some of them in our country, Sierra Leone, some of them have this disease. But the time they have about this disease makes them not to go to the hospital. Yes, I even know someone that was afraid of going to the hospital because they think that when you go to the hospital, they discover this disease, you are finished. Your family member will not come too close to you. They will be different to you. So that mentality makes them not to go to the hospital. That sounds like that fear mentality is really harmful, but also warranted. Yes. That sounds like it's just an awful decision to have to make in the first place. It's not as clear cut as it should be, yeah. Yes, people of that mentality cut. I mean, it's just an awful situation. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm just, it's definitely a difficult thing. And there's a lot more work to do as well. There's so much more work to do. Yeah, I mean, I'm just, it's a really difficult situation. But there's a lot of good work getting done. The work's not over. I want to monetize different platforms, the television station, to preach about this thing, teach about this thing outside, so that the people in the provinces say, yeah, we have the awareness that this disease can be cured. They should not have to work with my friends that were already discharged. I want to go from radio station, TV, teaching about this disease. They bring the awareness to the layman within the silent platform. I don't know if I can. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's coming, man. It's coming. Cures are coming. Get them out there. I mean, I'm disappointed that Johnson & Johnson was holding on to that cure in the first place. But you have to celebrate and thank them for eventually realizing. Oh, there we go. You're connected again. Perfect. That is my dream. I want to mobilize, engage guys that have already gone through these challenges, the same as I got. Think about them, because we usually meet with some of my colleagues that have already gone through these challenges in the hospital, within the PIH platform, because they think they have a platform where we can get together, discuss about. So I want to gather my friends. I build a group to fight against this disease. I'm going outside in the country, in the radio station, giving the awareness about this disease. Let them don't have that mentality, which again is a negative mentality. Yes. Yes. I'm walking towards that. I want to discuss with John Green if I can. When we guys get up, my friends, we are going to go out, talk about these things. So people will have that mentality that, no, if I have the disease, I need to go to the hospital and do some tests so that I can be cured. Because when we talk about the new drug, it heals faster. It heals faster because when you go to the hospital in LACA, they put you on the long regimen or the short regimen. When they put you on the short regimen, you take only four months. If the drugs work within your system perfectly, they can be discharged. You can be discharged within four months. But the disease is already affecting you badly. You can go out. Yes. You can stay there. Yeah. That sounds really like a difficult situation, if you have to say. Yeah. Yeah. It just sounds like incomprehensibly. I can't imagine how awful that is to go through. Yeah. And I think that the way forward, so no one has to deal with that. Everyone has to work together because we can. It is curable. That science is there. The medicine is there. We have to work together to distribute that as a community. We have to work together to fight against the negative thinking about this disease. Because when people have the awareness about this disease, they cannot be afraid. They will go willingly to the hospital to do a checkup to know no more about their health. Oh, yeah. I completely agree. I couldn't agree more. Yes. So we can come together to spread the awareness. Negative mentality does not help. I mean, we got to keep moving forward. Yeah. Everyone has to come together. I'm so happy for the great news. The prize about this. I know very soon the dwarfs will be inside and other parts of this. Yes. Yeah. I mean, John Green. I mean, I'm just I'm so happy that he's doing all this great work. Yeah. Thanks, Presidency. Yeah. I don't know how great it is, but we'll work with it. I mean, John Green's been doing great work. And, you know, I'm doing what I do. People are doing what they're doing. His community is doing great. You're doing great. People over there are doing great. Everyone's working together. And it gives me hope. Yeah. And I hope everyone else feels the same way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we should keep building our community strong, thinking about the people, the poor people that have no income. You understand? You need to bring happiness to them, thinking that when you have this disease, there is more hope for you. Become ill again, go out to your business normally without no stigma, because even we need to establish a policy. It can be in the policy, government policy. Every people that involved in this disease must not be stigmatized, right? There should be a policy. I don't know how you guys see it, but for me, for my own suggestion, there must be a policy because stigma makes people not to go to the hospital, to know their status, right? So we need to establish a policy. I don't know how. How is it? Well, I think a good way of aiding and getting rid of the stigma is to be able to at least get the medicines there. And that's what it looks like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That is good. Which is good. Great. So once we have the medicine. Yeah. The stigma starts to go away. People realize, OK, well, I can get help. Yeah. I think that that'll be really fun. Yeah. That's why I need to get people, my friends, to teach about this awareness. They should know that, yes, drugs is available for this. It can be cured. Yeah. And you're doing a great job. Your channel's, you know, doing that. That's what's great. Yeah. That's what I'm happy is that you have that audience. So one of the comments, I don't know how to pronounce the name, made a good point that everyone across the world is making impact here. And that's really exciting that everyone's working together to help people. You might not see it on the news every day, but that's that's the good side of the world. So happy about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm happy because, yeah, there is great improvement. Yeah. We need to support because they're doing a great job, too, because I imagine when I went to the hospital, because majority of them discharged this last Thursday and they are so happy to go home, meet some of their friends. And I saw guys giving the patient food items and so give them transport because some of them is far from the policy areas and they're happy. They're happy. That's great. I mean, it's great. It's great that you're you're staying in the community and helping people like other people helped you. And, you know, that's that's really that's really positive. That makes a real impact in making their time less painful, giving them hope. Because of the kind of mentality people are going with this disease is going rampant because the kind of individual. Yes. Because when I think about what, OK, especially my story, my story, when I have this disease. Right. My my my my my my cousin even disowned me. Don't even visit me in the hospital. Only my mother. Right. Don't they have that mentality? I should not go close to my brother, my cousin. You have that you have that disease. No, even there is. Thank you. In order to wash and because you have already gone to me, visit to me, maybe that mentality is not good for people. Right. Because it's make people that go close to the individual that have this disease go far away from me because that they make the thing was. Yeah, it's not good. And your mom sounds incredible. I mean, I can't imagine how difficult that must have been. And she just sounds like an incredible person. Yeah. Yeah. It was really tough. It was really tough because many of them. So are you cut out? Go away. That's why I said when a talent is gone, that is the time we know your real, real friend, because because of my friend gone away, leave me. Don't even think about me. It was so horrible. That sounds really hard. Yeah. Yeah. Well, some of my my mom's ways or run away to. Yes. They don't come close to my mom. Yes. Well, that was so. Yeah. Yes. Well, so even to now, because some of them have already become shame. Oh, then they don't even think that I will survive because the kind of mentality that they have, that kind of mentality was not good for them. So when it's now alive, walking along the road, they become shy. If they want to greet me, they will bow down and greet me. Well, that's part of the stigma that you were talking about that we really need to get rid of. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's massive. Yeah. But I think with time, I mean, with the treatments, it will become a lot easier. And you were you were one of the first people, I think, to be first in Salerio, Sierra Leone that I have heard of to get the treatment. And so, I mean, you're you're the first man you're you're the you're the guy, you know, and so you're you're leading the charge of getting rid of that stigma. And you should be proud of yourself for that. Yeah. You there disconnect again? I think he's going to come back. Give it a sec. Henry, are you there? I think the computer's thinking. Well, I'll wait a few minutes. You'll be reconnected. Yeah. Yeah. Discord is notoriously bad for quality. If any of you guys are typing comments, if you say Henry, it might be a little confusing. My name's Henry, too. So someone said Henry and I got that confused. Where is he? I mean, my Internet sucks. I don't know how I'm still connected. It's a miracle. I am not sure. Hold on. Let me give him a text. Yep. Henry, Henry and Henry. I'm Henry. He's Henry R. So.