Opinion / Columnist
The rescinded Goodwill Ambasssdorial honour a welcome move
27 Oct 2017 at 10:41hrs | Views
The withdrawal by WHO director to honour and appoint President Robert Mugabe as a Goodwill Ambassador has been applauded by most of Zimbabweans who have been going through a lot of challenges to access medication in the collapsing health care system.
The original proposal has sparked an outcry on social media and some critics questioned how the World Health Organisation came up with such an accolade.
The new head of WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom had previously praised Zimbabwe for it's commitment to public health care which some people saw it as a mockery to the Zimbabweans who are finding it difficult to access drugs from hospitals and clinics.
Firstly the World Health Organisation must in near future come up with an investigation team which must collect and gather information on the system of every country's health care and see how it is structured so that they keep well informed of such very important information. The intent to honour Mugabe with such an accolade was ill timed . Our health care system is still in shambles and needs a serious facelift if we are to be accorded that title.
One must visit Parireranyatwa hospital and see the state of our health care.The system has been destroyed for more than 10 or so years by this current government and is suffering under kwashiokor.
People are struggling to access important drugs. People are dying of incurable diseases and some cannot even access painkillers. The same applies in rural communities.Doctors and nurses are always on strike pushing for improved working conditions and salaries. Most of their time is spent on other business than attending to patients and it is so pathetic to say.
President Robert Mugabe himself is always travelling overseas , to Singapore to be precise for medical attention and does not even seek treatment in his own country.
Just the title Goodwill Ambassador regardless of the rest is a joke.This organisation has really exposed itself with this madness and we are now aware who calls for the pipe in that organisation and how they operate.
The reversal of the decision must be a bitter pill to swallow and sour grapes for all the spin doctors and bootlickers who are smarting from complete embarrassment
Now this is the time to speak with one voice and let us capitalise on this interesting development to deliver a proverbial sucker puncher to people who corruptly and intentionally award dubious accolades to undeserving cadres. I think South Sudan President Salva Kiir deserved it, as he opened a kidney hospital in his capital Juba. The first of its kind in Sudan.
Our government has caused so many unnecessary deaths to our people through it's neglect of health services.People have died of opportunistic ailments due to limited access to clean water.
There was a time when cholera and typhoid killed the people because the money to prevent such diseases is being diverted to unlimited flights to summits where the President invites a contingent of more than 40 aids blowing something like $6 million for each trip.
If the World Health Organisation had not withdrawn this accolade, it was really going to be the biggest joke of the century to reward him for his recklessness.
What is surprising is that even after the World Health Organisation decided on an abrupt turn on the ambassador nomination. What had influenced them to picture Zimbabwe citing it's healthy complexion? This was going to be absurd. There are some remotest rural areas where people walk around 10km to visit a clinic and with poor road network. This is now a wake up call to the government to consider improving our health care system.
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The original proposal has sparked an outcry on social media and some critics questioned how the World Health Organisation came up with such an accolade.
The new head of WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom had previously praised Zimbabwe for it's commitment to public health care which some people saw it as a mockery to the Zimbabweans who are finding it difficult to access drugs from hospitals and clinics.
Firstly the World Health Organisation must in near future come up with an investigation team which must collect and gather information on the system of every country's health care and see how it is structured so that they keep well informed of such very important information. The intent to honour Mugabe with such an accolade was ill timed . Our health care system is still in shambles and needs a serious facelift if we are to be accorded that title.
One must visit Parireranyatwa hospital and see the state of our health care.The system has been destroyed for more than 10 or so years by this current government and is suffering under kwashiokor.
People are struggling to access important drugs. People are dying of incurable diseases and some cannot even access painkillers. The same applies in rural communities.Doctors and nurses are always on strike pushing for improved working conditions and salaries. Most of their time is spent on other business than attending to patients and it is so pathetic to say.
President Robert Mugabe himself is always travelling overseas , to Singapore to be precise for medical attention and does not even seek treatment in his own country.
Just the title Goodwill Ambassador regardless of the rest is a joke.This organisation has really exposed itself with this madness and we are now aware who calls for the pipe in that organisation and how they operate.
Now this is the time to speak with one voice and let us capitalise on this interesting development to deliver a proverbial sucker puncher to people who corruptly and intentionally award dubious accolades to undeserving cadres. I think South Sudan President Salva Kiir deserved it, as he opened a kidney hospital in his capital Juba. The first of its kind in Sudan.
Our government has caused so many unnecessary deaths to our people through it's neglect of health services.People have died of opportunistic ailments due to limited access to clean water.
There was a time when cholera and typhoid killed the people because the money to prevent such diseases is being diverted to unlimited flights to summits where the President invites a contingent of more than 40 aids blowing something like $6 million for each trip.
If the World Health Organisation had not withdrawn this accolade, it was really going to be the biggest joke of the century to reward him for his recklessness.
What is surprising is that even after the World Health Organisation decided on an abrupt turn on the ambassador nomination. What had influenced them to picture Zimbabwe citing it's healthy complexion? This was going to be absurd. There are some remotest rural areas where people walk around 10km to visit a clinic and with poor road network. This is now a wake up call to the government to consider improving our health care system.
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