This figure is apart from other deaths that occurred because patients could not seek health care in systems that were overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. African leaders seem to have borrowed a page from Animal Farm’s playbook because they treat themselves as more equal than the others they lead. If they wanted to develop their health care system during their tenures, they could have but they chose not to. They were able to access the types of health care services that the citizens they ruled could only dream of. Having a good health care system is not just for the benefit of the masses but like a boomerang it also helps the leaders in power.

Source: The Guardian April 21, 2021 04:38 UTC