THE CALL FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
IN AFRICA MUST BE HEEDED
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Ndaba Sibanda (Zimbabwe)
As Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, spoke in Ethiopia on the
sidelines
of the 38th African Union Summit, I visualized bitter truths and
enshrines
that have been ignored for too long.
I “saw” the sorry state of Mpilo General Hospital,
and other gravely underfunded public institutions across the nation that
are ill and brittle.
“Africa cannot continue to rely solely on donor funding and foreign aid,
which, although helpful, are often unpredictable and unsustainable”, she
said.
As Senator Oluremi Tinubu stressed that a
healthy continent is a wealthy continent,
I reflected on African leaders’ notoriety for health tourism, not for
being independent.
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