CSOs march for patients’ food in Rumphi

It’s black Tuesday in Rumphi as hundreds of people invade the streets
to demonstrate against the starvation of patients in Malawi’s
hospitals.

The peaceful protest organised by the district’s civil society network
has been marked by nearly 3000 demonstrators dressed in black.

“Death of healthcare system is death of a nation. Drugs without food
are poisonous,”  says one of the protestors, Nthulula Zgambo of Kabaya
Village.

According to the civil society network chairperson Eunice Banda, the
protestors want President Peter Mutharika to heed the cries of
patients dying of hunger and lack of ambulances across the country.

Francis Puleni, acting director at the district council, pledged to
present the demonstrators’ petition to President Mutharika whom they
also accuse of failing to construct a teachers college on a site where
he laid a foundation stone in 2011.