A Zimbabwean doctor has launched an organization
to make it easy for Zimbabweans in the diaspora share their expertise with
those back home. The organization will help remove Zimbabwe’s red-tape demand
for professionals to be registered in the country for them to practise in the
country.
Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro, who runs a medical centre
in Nottingham, said the Zimbabwe Diaspora Skills Network (ZDSN) was inspired by
challenges he faced when trying to help at local hospitals when he travelled to
Zimbabwe.
“If in the spirit of
giving back, these professionals would do a shift or two working with
colleagues there, it will make a lot of difference,” Dr Nyatsuro said.
“Sometimes there is no
need to even do a shift but just sharing ideas with fellow professionals would
help the country. Benefits would include benchmarking and quality improvements,
technology sharing over and above the actual work done.”
Here we go! We have an
elephant in the room instead of driving the beast out Zimbabweans are expects at
coming up with all manner of hare-brain schemes on how we can adopt and work
round it. Not too be outdone by all the others before him, Dr Nyatsuro is come
up with ZDSN!
35 Years of
under-funding, mismanagement and corruption have turned even Zimbabwe’s big hospitals
like Mpilo and Parerenyatwa into dirty, decaying institutions not even worthy
of the name hospital. Dr Nyatsuro knows that even if one ward in his Nottingham
practice was found to be is a state comparable to what will find in Mpilo the
whole practice will be shut down immediately. He will be very lucky if he will
be ever allowed to work as a doctor in UK ever again!
So does our Dr
Nyatsuro really think his hare-brain scheme will bring back Mpilo Hospital to
its early 1980s heydays?
Tsuro (hare) in
Zimbabwe culture is supposed to be a clever animal outwitting the slow think gudo
(baboon) but it seems our Nya(tsuro) here is even worse than sloth. The root
cause of Zimbabwe collapsed health and education systems, economy and
everything else is the corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF dictatorship. For the
last 35 years Zimbabweans have worked hard to make Zimbabwe prosper regardless
of the wastefulness the Mugabe regime. The regime has responded by becoming
even more wasteful confident the people will come up with ways to cope with its
wasteful ways.
Give Mugabe an inch
today and he will be back tomorrow asking for a foot, ten foot, a mile, ten
miles, etc. After 35 years the criminal waste of resources the national economy
has had it, it was just a matter of time before it collapse because not even
the most resource rich and resilient economy is a bottomless pit!
By now it must have finally
dawned on even the slow witted Zimbabweans amongst us that the nation will
never prosper as long as the Zanu PF regimes is allowed to spend and waste resources
as if there is an infinite supply of money, gold, diamonds, etc. By now it must
have finally dawned on even the slow witted Zimbabweans amongst us that it does
not matter how hard we worked and how much we suffered Mugabe and his cronies
will never have enough to gratify their insatiable appetites for more power and
wealth.
It is give a man fish and you give him a meal;
teach him to fish and you give him a livelihood. But better still create the
environment that allows him to think for himself and he will survive and thrive
wherever he happens to be, after all we cannot all be fisherman and not all
rivers are teaming with fish. Yes Zimbabwean want a meal, they want a
livelihood but above all else they want an end to this parasitic political environment
that has sucked all their energy, initiative and hope and forced them to live
on scraps!
Zimbabweans have become accustomed to treating
Mugabe as God’s greatest gift to the nation and hence the reason why the nation
Zimbabweans gone to extraordinary length to find solutions to the nations’ many
teething problems which will NOT inconvenience him in any way. This conditioning
has reached nauseating levels we accept the absurdity of Mugabe spending $3 million
per trip to get medical treatment in Singapore, in 2012 he made as many as 12
trips; whilst hospitals in the country are so starved of funds they cannot provide
even the most mundane health service.
People like Dr Nyatsuro are offering the
starving nation scraps; no doubt to feed the nation but, more significantly -
whether they are aware of it - to ensure the Great Leader is NOT inconvenienced
in any way.
The truth is Mugabe is just another fallible mortal
like you and me and per se must be held to account for his 35 years of misrule.
Of course it is absurd that the nation should be wasting $36 million on his
health needs in one year when even a major hospital like Mpilo is so run down
it is not fit to be an animal hospital. People like Dr Nyatsuro can collect
used medical equipment being thrown away in his medical practice in Nottingham
but more significantly he should be questioning why a major hospital like
Parerenyatwa can be expected to function without something as basic as running
clean water in this day and age!
Dr Nyatsuro; Zimbabwe’s
collapse health system will not be revived by you and a few others in the
diaspora spending a few weeks working in the hospitals and clinics across the
country. Zimbabwe has the resources and potential to be a wealth and prosperous
nation with a healthy and well-funded health delivery system if only we stop
the criminal waste of resources through mismanagement and corruption. If you are serious about helping Zimbabwe get
out of this mess then confront the Zanu PF dictatorship behind the criminal
waste with the seriousness and urgency the matter demands.
It is this "I
will work harder!" mentality of Boxer the horse in George Orwell's Animal
Farm that has got Zimbabwe into political and economic hell and, unless we
break this mould and start to think outside the box, we will never ever get us
out of this hell!
End the Zanu PF waste
of resources; there is no reason why any hospital in Zimbabwe should not be a
centre of excellence on par with Nottingham Royal Infirmary or any other Hospital
anywhere in the World! Zimbabweans need a helping hand so they can stand up on
their own feet again more than they need charitable hand-outs which will only serve
to perpetuate their poverty and dependence.
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