Evaluation

The evaluators are coming! The hospital is abuzz! Next week is like judgement day. Evaluators from the Ministry of Health visit all the hospitals to rate them. Based on the ratings, funding could be cut or increased. The more productive and quality your hospital is, the more federal money you receive. Sounds like motivation to me!

For some reason I am always surprised to hear the formal functioning of Rwandan bureaucracy. I guess I always just picture Africa as a place of no deadlines, no paperwork and no ratings systems for federal funding.

As with every workplace there are those that work their butts off and those that use their butts to sit and be sloths. It's hard to reward some while reprimanding others. I wonder how getting fired in Rwanda works? I'll let you know if I find out…not personally of course!