When you write a blog it's easy to forget that it's like writing a letter and nailing it to a tree - you have no idea who might read it or how they might interpret it. The volatility surrounding the healthworkers strike makes me wary of making any comment at all. But it has been a huge factor influencing everything
that has been going on in the Ministry over the past 10 days, as you
will realise if you listen to yesterday's report from the BBC World Service or the report on the BBC website.
All I will say is that, unsurprisingly, this is all a massive distraction from the operational task of implementing the Free Health Care Initiative that should have been the focus of our work now. Making rapid changes from such a baselineof poverty and devastation was always going to painful, fraught with risks and with huge potential for mistakes to be made, so maybe none of this should be surprising. But deadlines are so tight now that there is no room for things to slip, and expectations relating to HR aspects of the plan are high.
On a personal note, I am pleased to report that I am writing this from the Simple Goal Guest House, that my bed is very comfortable. And that late last night, sitting at a beach bar with a cold beer, the pressures of work did not seem like too high a price to pay for being here.
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