Coronavirus diary – Part 24
6 years agoA Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Health worker tends to a mother and her child at a mobile clinic outreach in Manokortuhun village Kenema district July 10, 2020. - Across the impoverished West African state, doctors are warning that disease-prone infants are at increased risk of mortality as their parents avoid hospitals for fear of contracting COVID-19 coronavirus. Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which opened a 63-bed hospital in 2019, says that it has been treating 40-percent fewer people since the virus reached the country in late March (Photo by Saidu BAH / AFP)
This instalment deals with corruption, a pandemic within a pandemic. This is a systemic pathology that has rendered many societies impoverished because of a thieving elite profiting...