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Jijo
Jijo
6 years ago

I totally agree with OXFAM observation and suggestion that user fees in Malawi public hospitals and those under CHAM must end. The fees are just making it much more difficult to access health care for people who can’t afford to pay money. This is because the health workers will priorities the paying patients over non paying when resources are inadequate, forcing the poor to go back home without treatment. I disagree with MP Lunguzi for insisting user fees must remain and be encouraged. Please have a heart for the poor. As MP Miss Lunguzi has a privilege to be flown… Read more »

c chimbatata
c chimbatata
6 years ago

this is retrogressive thinking inu a Oxfam. i didn’t know kuti you are more stupid than stupidity itself. Just come in yourself and finance the health ministry if you think you can. Secondary schools students pay fees, why not district hospitals? Do you know what a hospital requires to help one client? Why you yourself is on masm and go to private Hospitals? its becoz quality at government hospitals is going down due to lack of resources. So the user fees is just beefing up the empty government purse. i hope your brain cells all are atrophied. you are a… Read more »

Njanji
Njanji
6 years ago

Fotseke! Isn’t this the same Oxfam that was involved in a scandal where they procured sex from young prostitutes in Haiti?

Zam'tonda
Zam'tonda
6 years ago

Going back to the 1964 cabinet crisis “tickey stamp” paid at the health facility may God bless our visionary leadership. Our poverty stricken people will be emancipated in terms of health as you place a huge rock on their shoulders oxfam keep on hammering on behalf of the real people they see Malawians from twisted hazy lens so cocooned in corrupt practices that the heat they are unleashing on a Malawian is just pure breeze to them. Never shall we live this life twice but those in the leadership should please shoulder the responsibility of carrying part of the burdens… Read more »

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