Looting angers medical doctors
Medical doctors have reacted angrily to the looting of public resources, which has resulted in the suspension of government’s accounting system, Integrated Financial Information Management System (Ifmis).
A number of senior government officers have been arrested with huge sums of money, resulting in some Malawians losing trust in the manner government is handling taxpayers’ money.
The Medical Doctors Union of Malawi has since joined other voices demanding to open all government records for public scrutiny and punish all those involved in the misuse of public funds.
“It is disheartening and utterly frustrating to note that while government is struggling to ensure constant availability of essential medicines and supplies in public hospitals, largely due to inadequate funds, some individuals within the same public service are finding it so easy to access the same inadequate funds for their own personal benefits at the expense of poor Malawians,” reads a statement signed by the union’s president Jerome Nkambule.
The statement further states that for quite some time now, health workers, have also been complaining of poor salaries and were always made to believe that government does not have resources to meet their demands yet others enrich themselves.
“We ask the National Audit Office (NAO), the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and others to expedite their investigations and file the appropriate cases against public officials involved,” says the statement.
