I have always wondered how the ministers in the Government of South Sudan makes their priorities. We have hundreds of urgent health matters that need to be addressed, but nothing gets done. From malarias and TB and AIDS to diarrhaoes and sleeping sickness. Of course, other conditions that are part of a poor healht system come on top too. High maternal death or avoidable surgical conditions remain major problems.
How do you chose which problems to tackle first? When the GOSS came on, they promise quick fixes for lots of things like building hospitals, clinics and health centers where none existed before. Old hospitals will be rehabilitated. Health surveys were done in all the states. What happend next?
It is unfortunate that many of the promises have fallen down the drain. The much publicised building of hospitals in each of the states of south Sudan turn out to be a huge scandal that caused the GOSS Minister of Health his job. Normeca turned out to be a small company that has no experience in such matters, only out there to milk the funds from south Sudan, at the cost of more than a half of the whole budget!
We need priorities in health. It is evident that we cannot do everything at the same time. There should be a focus, a base from which much can be done. Do we have such plans, or we are just doing what comes to mind?
