Health and education : the Achilles heel in Honduras

Health and education : the Achilles heel in Honduras

Health and education : the Achilles heel in Honduras .

In Honduras , talk about education and health, is a tricky issue , because from the beginning of the "democratic" governments , these secretaries were slowly penetrated by the politicians in power as a source of employment agency of its activists , the start respecting the have minimal compliance professional profile for the performance of the office , but as time progresses , the job opportunities decreasing substantially , and the presence of a mass of activists increasingly less prepared , was replacing the civil service law as an instrument recruitment of staff in the public administration , falling into the background , where the indispensable requirement for a square was and is the recommendation of the politician in office , which is housed in a political commissar in each department or city where exerts its influence , permitted by an executive branch folding the guidelines of a party that responds to the interests of a party , not the country , so both secretaries were eminently filling administrative and unnecessary resources , which has led to the huge bureaucracy that in a colloquial word our current President Pepe Lobo, defined as a " damn bureaucracy ," which despite being identified as a drag on public administration , little or nothing has been done to regulate it and make it more functional , where each personnel action or otherwise, sleeping the sleep of the just before the grief and anger of those who are subjected to such rudeness in its administrative function , has led the state to a creepy inertia , where advances by pushing from behind , but that bear no goal or compass to indicate where it goes public administration.

In my country , currently has noticed that most emblematic secretaries its fundamental task , today , politicians regard these secretaries as the biggest expense that makes the state, without seeing tangible results to justify such an investment , as these are seen as an expense without any compensation to the state political falling ignorantly said consider this as an expense but as an investment , since the results are meager according to the size of the investment, is symptomatic when we hear with drums and dishes from the government when they say they have achieved 200 days of school, which ripostan magisterial leaders that has been repressing the teachers and themselves questioning the quality of education , where a number of arguments indicate invalid because the nuclear resource is in schools and colleges , despite deficiencies in the provision of the minimum equipment for teaching , but with will and imagination , teachers could easily improve educational quality , but unfortunately , these mainly their leaders have been dedicated permanently block any attempt to improve education, citing the violation of the statute of teaching , which is true , but that they are charged with violating , to just focus on the rights and ignoring homework.

In this government , has been systematic confrontation between them, taking students hostage , who are suffering the shortcomings of the educational system , where the teacher is more concerned about their income than by what it teaches , because in the currently , most teachers are not like yesteryear where worried about the student that was deficient in education today , simply give the class, and if the student has difficulty learning , that is no problem of student the teacher.

Here the role of the government , it is extremely worrying as administratively are not trained to handle this secretariat , as there has been a terrible bureaucracy in this secretary , by manipulating the jobs where the appeal is not taken more capable if you have more recommendations to policy , which has led to an administrative debacle , while until recently , was ignored as a resource person in their records , having a number of paratroopers , which only recently has been detected, which means lost billions , without any guilty of this.

In the health secretary , has seen the same phenomenon , with aggravating as corruption in the purchase of inputs is scandalous , as prices are inflated two or three times the normal price , which does not allow for timely supply , and enough to cover the needs of a sick people , which will most health facilities , and back as he came, because he was not solved your health problem , not having the necessary inputs for therefore, this adds to the great invention that politicians had to recruit activists , and to obviate the laws for hiring personnel in their professional work , who have fallen into the famous contracts , where the political activist is subject the political commissar of the moment, where most are subject to wage gouging , required if you want to continue working , otherwise , no more hiring, and with the aggravation that often are hired without a budget structure that logically the course of time these staff creates pressures to not receive your payment before work already performed .

In this situation , there is an administrative lag , where you take money budgeted for permanent and it is paid to these resources by contract , if not taken money from surgical items for medical supplies and medications in the calamity falling that has occurred in recent years, primarily the incumbent government , which has fallen into insolvency atrocious , but who refuse to reduce administrative spending , on the contrary, have been given the task of giving money arrangement with the story of reducing poverty , but all they do is make the poorest and most dependent capping , all in an effort electioneering . This has now collapsed health system , as there is no response of any kind, except the lies that we hear daily , where cheating both the people and the staff working in direct care to the people , let us remember , too, that different guilds that interact in this secretariat , often only see their rights as workers to attend, and they are right , but they forget their duties stipulated in its regulations that side are worthless , as they often , that many of these workers , the people you birlen Hondurans , thousands of man / hours annually , which translates into money, are amounts that are lost millions , by the complacency of the authorities of each health facility , aided by a loss of enforcement , because first is political power , which does not allow to punish one of its activists , falling civil service law in the drawer of forgetfulness and indifference .

This is the sad reality of life in Honduras , where the people are sick and permanent students hostage both the government and the various unions involved in the daily work.

Posted by Hernando Carcamo at 13:19