No more bandages

I just read this article by Mark Doyle of BBC news, it says a lot about the health situation in DRC:

On the day I visited the hospital a car accident victim was rushed in, his head pouring with blood.
"I don't have any bandages," Dr Kabamba said, "my cupboard is bare. We will have to wait for a family member to come here with cash before we treat him."
That is now the normal procedure in the Kinshasa General. Dr Kabamba's ward is full of people waiting, and many dying for lack of basic drugs and dressings.
Two young boys there caught my attention, probably because they were about the same age as my own sons.
They were suffering from peritonitis; the contents of their bowels were leaking into their guts and poisoning them.
"I need 61,000 Congolese francs (about $120; £60) for the surgery," the mother of one of the boys said, "but I haven't managed to collect it."
Dr Kabamba is angry and frustrated:
"I am powerless," he said; "I have all these people, poor people, and they are waiting for treatment. Some of them will die for lack of an operation. That is the reality."

Dr Kabamba was once offered a way out from the blood-soaked wards of the Kinshasa General. He was offered a lucrative government job. But he turned it down.
"What would be the point of doing that for five or 10 years if after that you could not look people in the eye?" he asked.
"I am watching a lot of people dying and it hurts me. These are innocent people, and the government is there with its big villas and cars. I cannot accept that."
DR Congo Health Minister Victor Makwenge Kaput agreed that the current situation was "completely unacceptable".
He said the government was in the process of reorganising the structure and accountability of the whole public health sector.
"The president has made it clear that health is a priority", he said.
Dr Kabamba said there had to be a fundamental change in the way Congo was governed.
"If we had people who were really patriotic it would be different", he said.
"But until now we have just had people scrabbling for positions to make money."