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"On October 18, 2017, Tedros announced that he had chosen Zimbabwe’s former president, the Marxist tyrant Robert Mugabe, to serve as a WHO goodwill ambassador helping
to deal with non-communicable diseases in Africa. Tedros justified his
selection of Mugabe by lauding Zimbabwe as “a country that places
universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its
policies to provide health care to all.” But in fact, Zimbabwe’s health
system, like everything else under the broad shadow of Mugabe’s
dictatorship, was in total collapse. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that Mugabe’s “utter mismanagement
of the economy has devastated health services” in his homeland. HRW’s
Kenneth Roth noted that “[w]hen you go to Zimbabwean hospitals, they
lack the most basic necessities.” And the prominent Zimbabwean
politician Obert Gutu said: “The Zimbabwe health delivery system is in a
shambolic state, it is an insult. Mugabe trashed our health delivery
system…. he allowed our public hospitals to collapse.” Moreover, it was
an open secret that even Mugabe himself did not use his own country’s
health system when he needed medical care, traveling instead to
Singapore for treatment. As a result of widespread public outrage
sparked by the Mugabe nomination, Tedros was forced to withdraw Mugabe’s
name from consideration."
