{UAH} WHY DO FOREIGNERS SEE OUR PROBBLEMS BETTER THAN WE DO? A DISTURBING EXCERPT FROM "MURDER IN UGANDA"
My question is, why do foreigners see our own problems better than we do? Here is an excerpt from MURDER IN UGANDA, which I encourage you all to read. And for those of you who still rant over the few but serious deaths over Obote and Amin regimes, Museveni's continuing systematic murder of Ugandans thru deadly roads, brutality and above all, hospitals have more than quadrupled those of all past regimes. The problem is, it is continuing in broader daylight than in the pasts.
"When Singapore was looking to reform its own health care system in the 1960s, it sent a delegation to Uganda.
Today, this system is a shambles. Bats, snakes, and other wildlife have taken up residence in once-functioning rural clinics. I have seen fecal material rain down from the crumbling ceilings of operating theaters. Power cuts and water shortages in hospitals kill thousands of patients each year, and emergency operations on pregnant women are sometimes carried out by the light of torches made from burning grass. A decade ago, the UK government funded the construction of scores of new hospitals, but the Ugandan government neglected to staff them, and some are now hideouts for thieves.
In 2012, women were seven times more likely to die in childbirth at Mulago Hospital than when Idi Amin was president forty years earlier."
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