{"id":3533,"date":"2021-08-05T15:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2021-08-05T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T15:46:41","slug":"chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele","title":{"rendered":"Chakwera lacks strong decisive leadership \u2013 Atupele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi has teared into President Lazarus Chakwera, saying the Malawi leader is not showing strong decisive leadership. Muluzi made the remarks in reaction to reports that health sectors donors are pulling out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Muluzi, who served as Minister of Health in the Peter Mutharika administration, noted that donors under the Health Sector Joint Fund (HSJF) have withdrawn support for the payment of utility bills in the health sector as well as support for the procurement of blood from Malawi Blood Transfusion Services for CHAM facilities.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed concern that donor confidence is diminishing everyday and the Chakwera administration has not shown commitment to support the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this is happening at a time when there is very little commitment from government to increase funding to the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrong decisive leadership is conspicuously lacking \u2013 we are currently facing a 3rd wave of Covid. Since the 3rd wave of Covid started, no single statement has come from our Head of State. What on earth is going on?\u201d wrote Muluzi in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi Government has allocated K204.7 billion to the Ministry of Health in the 2021\/22 budget. Yesterday, health sector donors expressed concern that Malawi has failed to commit 15 percent of the national budget to the Health sector. Donors also advised government to look for alternatives to donor funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi has teared into President Lazarus Chakwera, saying the Malawi leader is not showing strong decisive leadership. Muluzi made the remarks in reaction to reports that health sectors donors are pulling out of the country. Muluzi, who served as Minister of Health in the Peter Mutharika [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[233,371,1545,1544,227,306,234],"class_list":["post-3533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-atupele-muluzi","tag-donors","tag-health","tag-lazarus-chakwera","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chakwera lacks strong decisive leadership \u2013 Atupele - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi has teared into President Lazarus Chakwera, saying the Malawi lea ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chakwera lacks strong decisive leadership \u2013 Atupele\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi has teared into President Lazarus Chakwera, saying the Malawi lea ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-05T15:49:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-610c07a8a0a6b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"722\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chakwera lacks strong decisive leadership \u2013 Atupele\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-05T15:49:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2021\/08\/img-610c07a8a0a6b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Atupele Muluzi\",\"donors\",\"Health\",\"Lazarus Chakwera\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chakwera-lacks-strong-decisive-leadership-atupele\",\"name\":\"Chakwera lacks strong decisive leadership \u2013 Atupele - 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