Unrest needs worthy health sector

Sir,

Let us not lose anymore emaSwati due to bureaucracy, government’s technical inefficiencies and, most of all, government failing to spend money where it is mostly needed. Every money coming out of the government purse should be redirected to rescuing the public healthcare sector to keep emaSwati alive.

Given all the mayhem we have witnessed in Eswatini’s health sector in the past few months, it has become clear that our government is largely reactive in all of its responses, while at the same time it is not using public funds to maximise positive health outcomes.

Stop

It needs to stop, with immediate effect, all non-priority spending and re-route all available funds for all the supplies and other provisions desperately needed by the public healthcare sector. Eswatini is in a situation that is immediately dangerous to life and health, which needs government to act swiftly to circumvent it at all costs.

It is a crime that people should continue to die in Eswatini while government is still spending money on contracts for building highways, cement for hotels, and transport allowances to feed greedy politicians yet our hospitals are still running out of food and medication.

Projects

Why is it that some capital projects are still ongoing and draining government coffers while the health sector is still inadequately funded?

It is really strange that the health sector needs to throw a hissy fit for it to be noticed so that government can be challenges. forced to use our taxes to get us the medical supplies we need. It’s ridiculous!

Let us not get to a point where we become numb to all the deaths around us because they can be avoided if government could become more proactive in repositioning the health sector to deal with its

Money

If money is the problem, which of course is the root cause of all the corruption and inefficiencies within government, what strategies has Cabinet implemented to get more value out of our public institutions that are supposed to serve the populace? Right now is the time for all of government and its many parastatals in the economy to pull towards one goal, which is equipping the health sector to rise up to what is demanded of it.