Thank God for Government Hospitals

From BBC News:

A fully-equipped hospital that lay unused for two years has burned to the ground in northern Nigeria.

"The General Hospital in Maiduguri was built in 2006 but
the state government refused to open it until the president came to cut
the ribbon. The president was due to visit the hospital next month to open it...

Borno was recently hit by a measles outbreak that killed hundreds of children [and] existing hospitals in Borno are poorly equipped and overcrowded. Angry residents ... gathered around the burned hospital and shouted abuse at the alleged arsonists, local papers reported..."

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One question: It's understandable why they are mad at the arsonists, but why not be mad at the government? It seems to me that the politicians willing to let hundreds of people die (And in all likelihood it is probably way more than just the hundreds from the measles outbreak) in order to satisfy their demand for political grandstanding is the real problem here.