We met with the Assistant Commissioner of Health in charge of ICTs on Monday May 21. We were all really excited about the meeting and actually starting the project with a meeting with the Minister. Unfortunately he was in Geneva still so we met with the man in charge of ICTs which is fitting. It was such a frustrating meeting. People were either asking us completely irrelevant things or pushing back due to political reasons. Apparently the minister is from a different district so they were trying to get us to change our plans and go to that district. They wanted us to assess how flat screen monitors could work in health offices in Kampala (the capital) and the district hospitals to relay health messages. That is absurd! These people don’t even have electricity for the most part and he was talking about a technology that would only help him to promote his work.
He also commented on how our team is all women and then proceeded to ask a woman at the meeting who is not affiliated with the Ministry to send him minutes after the meeting.
At least we’ve all had experience with crazy people like this and we dismissed most of what he said, noted a few key words and phrases he kept mentioning and we went off with our plan. Oh politics.
He also commented on how our team is all women and then proceeded to ask a woman at the meeting who is not affiliated with the Ministry to send him minutes after the meeting.
At least we’ve all had experience with crazy people like this and we dismissed most of what he said, noted a few key words and phrases he kept mentioning and we went off with our plan. Oh politics.
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