{"id":166021,"date":"2015-11-11T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T07:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=166021"},"modified":"2015-11-11T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T07:37:47","slug":"tanzanias-president-sacks-hospital-chief-over-patients-sleeping-on-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=166021","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania&#8217;s president sacks hospital chief over patients sleeping on floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly installed Tanzanian president, John Magufuli sacked the head of the country&#8217;s main hospital after finding patients sleeping on the floor during a surprise visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The president was dismayed and saddened by the state of medical service delivery, particularly for patients sleeping on the floor,&#8221; a statement from his office said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also reportedly broke up the governing board at Muhimbili National Hospital after discovering the main scanning and diagnostic machines were not working and seeing other poor conditions on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The president is trying to send a message that times have changed &#8230; It&#8217;s not business as usual &#8230; It&#8217;s all about delivery \u2013 the government has to deliver for the people,&#8221; the chief secretary at the president&#8217;s office, Ombeni Sefue, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Magufuli took over last week from former president Jakaya Kikwete, who stepped down after two terms in office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Tanzaniatoday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly installed Tanzanian president, John Magufuli sacked the head of the country&#8217;s main hospital after finding patients sleeping on the floor during a surprise visit. &#8220;The president was dismayed and saddened by the state of medical service delivery, particularly for patients sleeping on the floor,&#8221; a statement from his office said. He also reportedly broke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":166022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-166021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/166022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}