DRC: Ailing health system needs cure
03.07.2006
Adults and children lie on a concrete floor between steely skeletons of beds that once had mattresses in the Isangi public hospital. The collapse of their health system horrifies Congolese. "It's disgusting. The medical team helps out in emergencies," Dr Jean-Robert Tshimanga, the hospital director, said "but if they [patients] have no money what can we do?