For years, leaders from Benin to Zimbabwe have received medical care abroad while their own poorly funded health systems limp from crisis to crisis. We must be ashamed.”Now a wave of global travel restrictions threatens to block that option for a cadre of aging African leaders. Spending on health care in Africa is roughly 5% of gross domestic product, about half the global average. But some in a new generation of African leaders have been eager to show sensitivity to virus-prevention measures. While African leaders are more tied to home than ever, their access to medical care is still far better than most of their citizens'.

Source: Ethiopian News April 04, 2020 06:56 UTC