MCP blasts DPP for telling hospitals to grow maize

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Jessie Kabwila

Malawi’s main opposition party, Malawi Congress Party (MCP) has blasted government for suggesting through the minister of information that hospitals in the country have to be growing crops to feed their patients.

The party’s spokesperson Jessie Kabwila said this only shows that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government is too harsh and says there is no way Malawi hospitals could be told that since farming is the duty of another government department.

“The suggestion that the hospitals should be growing crops to feed patients just shows that the DPP government has failed. For sure they have failed miserably, you cannot tell a person who is ill to go and cultivate.”

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“Now you can see that their policy failure has resulted to the death of people. You cannot expect people in the health sector to start doing something which is in another sector, the simple question is what is the mandate of the health sector?” said Kabwila.

She further said that what is wrong in Malawi is that the country is being ruled by DPP. She said every time DPP is in control of this country, there are political conflicts.

However, information minister, Jappie Mhango said the local media misquoted him.

He said he was reacting to Nkhatabay DHO who was, to the minister’s surprise, asking for farm inputs. The minister further said he told Chitipa health officials that at Nkhatabay hospital, land has been cultivated for the benefit of patients.

Mhango said: “Nkhatabay DHO was asking for fertilizer and a borehole which will enable them to grow crops even in the dry season. I was pointing on an issue that was said by the DHO to Chitipa hospital.”