Never a dull moment
on Freetown Blog (Sierra Leone), 05/Nov/2009 16:06, 34 days ago
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The office gossip can be high quality here. The Ministers office is just up the corridor and the news that is now on the link below has been been flying around  as a possibility for a while. The President launched the Health Sector Strategic plan this morning and, remarkably, all seemed to go off without a hitch. Reuters, Africa - top newsAt first sight.the headline might look dramatic, but when you think about it (for those of us who have been around the UK NHS for a while) it's not like we have never come across a situation where a contract has been favourably awarded to a relative, is it? The dominant view round here seems to be that sacking and arrest is not such a disproportionate reaction. Maybe we have something to learn...