Public health lags behind international standards. Structural problems within the healthcare system reveal a lack of funding, infrastructure, and support. This treatment of healthcare work result in insufficient services making health inaccessible.
The country’s educators endure similar problems. Teachers are given the heavy responsibility of molding young minds and fighting illiteracy and yet the quality of education remains low because it is affected by under-funding and subsistence pay.
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