ULIMWENGU: Since they cannot handle the truth, our leaders’ quick fixes are lies, exaggerations
Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli talks to medical staff at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, on August 11, 2019. Recently, in a daily, the health minister declared that health delivery systems had so dramatically improved since 2015, that referrals to India and elsewhere had fallen drastically. But miracles do not just happen. PHOTO | STRINGER | AFP
Our local government mouthpiece recently carried two stories that exemplified a malaise afflicting our body politic, that is, the desire to be seen to produce quick results in whatever we are in charge of without giving a damn about whether what our officials are reporting is something they can seriously vouch for or attest to.
In this daily we got to read about the minister responsible for health declaring that because health delivery systems had so dramatically improved since President John Pombe Magufuli took over in 2015, heart-condition referrals to India and elsewhere had fallen by 95 per cent, and I was like, wow, that has to be a world record in reversing trends in just four years.
