{"id":9355,"date":"2012-04-21T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9355"},"modified":"2012-04-21T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:59:19","slug":"senior-officers-steal-450-litres-at-salima-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/21\/senior-officers-steal-450-litres-at-salima-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Officers steal 450 Litres at Salima Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Senior officers at Salima district hospital are suspected to have stolen over 450 litres of fuel, a development that has forced junior workers to threaten boycott work in an attempt to demand an explanation on the matter.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5997\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fuel_shortage_malawi_slide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fuel_shortage_malawi_slide-300x146.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fuel_shortage_malawi_slide\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5997\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fuel Crisis still irks Malawi<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nIn a petition sourced by Face Of Malawi addressed to the District Health Officer, the concerned staff wonder why a few bosses stole the fuel meant for saving lives of critically ill patients in the event of blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>The district health officer, Dr. Florence Bwanali confirmed receiving<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes I can confirm receipt of the petition on the concerns of fuel theft,\u201d said Dr. Bwanali<\/p>\n<p>Angered by the delay to brought the suspects to book, concerned staff at the hospital comprising of nurses, clinicians and other supporting staff, have given a seven day ultimatum to the management to give them a convincing explanation on what happened to the fuel or else they will start boycotting work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManagement will abide by the staff\u2019s demand and call for an immediate staff meeting before the end of the ultimatum,\u201d said Dr. Bwanali.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the theft, the hospital borrowed K 40,000 from Maikhanda trust to buy fuel for the hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior officers at Salima district hospital are suspected to have stolen over 450 litres of fuel, a development that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[755,367,258,876,2175,2176],"class_list":["post-9355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-fuel","tag-hospital","tag-malawi","tag-salima","tag-salima-hospital","tag-senior-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}