If you feed money in to a developing countries health care system, what happens when you stop feeding money? This is in reference to the $1bn that the governments of the UK, Norway, Netherlands and Australia will be giving to the GAVI for the worlds 72 poorest nations.
Does the country have a high enough GDP to support the systems that have been introduced in the long term? I am guessing not, or else why did we need to feed the money in the first place. Therefore why waste the money, effort and time. I am all for helping a country develop, but it should be in a maintainable fashion, therefore helping to improve the countries economy and then it will be able to improve it’s own health care (along with everything else).
Today I felt like I completely failed at my job. I was ‘on shift’, therefore I was supposed to be keeping an eye on all of the systems at my work and their health. Yet I failed to notice an issue ‘that was glaring me in the face’ for over 3 hours, due to the ‘noise factor’.
At the beginning of my shift I noticed some parts of our monitoring had been semi-broken for a large part of the weekend. So I focused on getting that fixed. Once I had that fixed that my monitoring systems were showing about 2000 alarms, which is high. But due to the large chunk of the infrastructure that had gone un-monitored over the weekend I didn’t think much of it. Alongside this there was some database maintenance ongoing.
So how did the noise fail me, well the number of alarms for databases should have been glaringly obvious. But due to the monitoring and maintenance issues, I didn’t take heed. When you are used to having between 100-200 alarms, and you have a system reporting 2000; I find that it gets very difficult to get a handle on the real problems.
Overall I know I didn’t fail, but for the next few hours I am going to be beating myself up about it.