Friday, December 22, 2006

Clippers Oil Vegetable Oil

L'hôpital A. Schweitzer en grève

As usual on Fridays, I was first morning as the Salle de Cours at the Polyclinic, host to each of the X-ray images - after a fast-food breakfast suffer because of the snooze function on my mobile phone alarm clock. I stood in front of closed doors, however. In the waiting room of the Department of the Director by interim was already working to drive away the waiting patients, banks have been restructured. While the hospital staff gathered on the benches in the middle of the room was still set up a board. In a half-hour statement struck Patrick (just before the Director by interim), that staff should give up the end-year bonus to guarantee wages in February still can. Apparently in the past (as I understand, after another strike) increases wages by 40%. The pledge by the government additional 40% in subsidies remained from the past. You have to know that after the disposal of the Director in the summer of this year followed by a new director, the cast appeared after a fairly short time in a rather comical way in the towel, and when I arrived in Libreville, I met him just as he left for a conference to France. After a week he was supposed to be returned, but not again. Patrick appears to have been dug up somewhere, which should take the lead by interim for 6 months. The penultimate manager had left a huge financial hole, and the International Foundation is also mainly made up of people with helper and Schweitzer-nostalgia syndrome than in people who are able to successfully lead this hospital is not very simple conditions. Patrick, been here a month, then tried unsuccessfully in the various ministries the promised raise money and came across but always head nodding, but regretful granite. Employees credited with the money of course, can not do without pay for their Christmas party and gifts. Great commotion in the hall. Some votes of the employees, increasing discontent is spreading. Patrick withdraws. The Heads of services should make a poll and then represented as representatives of the views of employees to the Director. After African Art began in groups of 3-4 people complain too wild gesticulating and ranting. Justin, Eric and I went for the morning visit from the dust. In between came times the message, the polyclinic was blocked. At 10 clock back to the polyclinic all sat around idly on the benches, no one knew what's going on now. The chiefs of service were apparently the director of the negotiation. Somehow, I still treated two patients. Given a tuberculosis patient from the previous day, had to organize a Gardien to be hospitalized. The first was sitting several hours coughing amid all the other patients, because Justin him differently than I did not want to send in the Kopp while he did not know who worked in the Kopp (= the innner medicine). I was given a reprimand, the patient coughed on for a hour, brilliant. I folded with Pauline, a patient from psychiatry, in each of the policy is emptying the trash, some Danish paper stars. And I looked again at about 12 clock over in my office - the infirm were there now in cooking and food ... The cooks of
Réfectoire were also on strike - but admits eating what? Solange, the wife of the technology leaders and Sophie tried the girlfriend of the logistics company to jump into the breach, even chocolate mousse gabs. Only almost no one has appeared, because all the assumptions that there would be nothing anyway. For those other hospital employees who come in at noon to pick up each Réfectoire their African food rations, emergency rations gabs exception of the German military. About half
3 clock in the afternoon was expected to make a decision. When there was no decision, I packed my things and went shopping in the city. If it would work, so I could come back. There were none. We'll see how it goes tomorrow.
23.12.2006: Under pressure from the staff of the end-year bonus was then paid out yet. Because everything here is paid in cash, were Pierre and Marie from administration to late evening because the mountains of notes, which they took off "emergency basis" for the bank to join, and to the staff pay out the front of the secured by the Sécurité doors Administration was waiting - and in between every now and then accosted, so they would not be forgotten.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Sanitary Pads Post Delivery

elections

Yesterday, on 17 December, the elections were for the National Assembly (lower house) instead. About 800 people ran for the 120 seats - actually for 111 seats. The Member for the remaining 9 seats are obviously of Mr. Omar Bongo Ondimba determined person. Last year, Bongo, who is in office since 1967, elected for a further 7-year reign and is the longest reigning president in Africa. In addition there are bongos PDG around 50 opposition parties, usually financially weak and with an ideology that is not fundamentally different from that of the PDG. Many Gabonese boy or go basically did not choose first. Transparency missing, they do not trust the electoral process. As Guillaume, a 20 year old said, it will change anything anyway. The ballot papers? Thrown into the Ogou. And if Bongo dies, it is his son, who will continue to govern.
is not quite so bad to be. Compared to neighboring countries, Gabon is a very politically stable country. In my mind, lies not least in the oil and the wood. The oil reserves are running low, but .... .
However, Bongo himself is not content with messes. To drive a side wall of his residence need at least a two-minute train ride photograph, of course, forbidden. His seat of government is a gigantic, with x offices, the devil knows what he needs them all. During our Libreville-trip last weekend and we have been with us the whole rest of the traffic stopped twice by the military. Once on the highway, pass to Mr. Bongo on the bridge about it could, the second time on a main road of the coast. In each case, police in front of and behind the limousine, the ambulance was also the same in her entourage. You never know ... . Because the elections were on Sunday, already closed Saturday evening all the bars, shops and shopping centers. We had missed when planning our Libreville weekend anyway. And shopping centers may have been used a bit high. In fact, there is one thing: Mbolo. Since there are (almost) everything, sometimes at exorbitant Prices. This gonna be the most expensive Weihnachtsguetsli my life.
And à propos ambulance: during the campaign paid Bongo himself from Lambarene a visit, of course, only at the airport, but still. Because of him on that day, all the ambulances were blocked (even though he just always carries its own also) and we could not move our patient as provided to Libreville. He then appeared to spread more money, which of course led to controversy - but it is possible to vote. That is
campaign, we realized later than the beginning of December, the official campaign's start. Since they met every few meters namely Bongo on the belly of a RAO-shirt-wearer. What are called does not want the support RAO sympathizer - but a free shirt here nobody says no. Also, baseball caps and other gadgets - from last year's elections, I have seen others also packs a good quality. But in any case seems to have enough money. Proportional to the financial strength of other parties and candidates gabs also a few institutions of other T-shirts. Well, then - along with T-shirts they met on the Kandiaten plakatbeklebten cars, shops, bars, worldwide. Even on the lottrigsten huts with corrugated iron roof on the road Lambarene - Libreville: Bongo missing anywhere.
beginning of December we were at a RAO-election campaign. Hundreds of people in the white bongo-Shirts, loud music, singers, dancers. Even if the content does not agree, the type of campaign events, one could in any case for the trending Switzerland.
I've heard today nothing definite from the results, I have just looked on the web. Except for Al Jazeera and some other observers page I have found, however, not smarter. Even Al Jazeera could report little more than that in many places, the polling station staff are not published, and people went to vote until very late because they went first into the church in the morning ... Probably the most seats made before RAO. And on the subject of church and faith above all perhaps another time ... .
Wahlkampfveranstaltung in Isaac Dezember 2006