CCM has weighed the pros and cons and made the hard decision that it is more important for the three musketeers to retain their jobs than to have a working (or spurttering) health sector.
It is not the first time that we see our rulers being more concerned for individuals' careers than for the well being of Tanzanians. Our memories are still fresh with Mbagala and Gongo la Mboto. The Spice Islander disaster, which dwarfs Titanic in numbers dead, happened just the other day. And, off course, we have the other trio Jairo, Utouh, Luhanjo. No one has been held accountable
Today, one leaves home and prays that she does not get into a motor accident, or gets the random food poisoning because there are no doctors to cure them from these common misfortunes. This in a country with endemic malaria and perrenial cholera outbreaks.
Reagan once said, "The buck stops here", in refference to the need for presidents to be decisive when the system fails to deliver. The system has surely failed here; MNH management failed to kill the problem in the bud, the Ministry was irresponsible and cavalliar on the issue, the PM was misguided and made matters worse and the parliaments' collective balls have been castrated by the new allowances.
IT IS TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT TO ACT - HE IS THE LAST HOPE FOR TANZANIANS.