Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 13 February 2018.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:05, 13 February 2018

That is a wholly outrageous comment. Let me just educate him a little so he looks beyond his own nose. The third world is an old-fashioned and discriminatory description anyway. We talk of the developing world these days. Let me tell you, there was a hospital in Uganda in Mbale serving several million people—it had seven consultants serving all those people. You could have an endoscopy there but if the endoscopy discovered some issue that had to be resolved, whether it was perhaps a stomach ulcer or worse, there was no treatment. People died of stomach cancer because they could not afford the treatment. Half the patients who entered that hospital went in there with malaria, which the doctors found very difficult to treat. Yes, they were able to perform miracles when it came to accident and emergency, but many, many people died of preventable illnesses. And he stands there and he compares the Welsh health service, with 1,000 consultants for three million people, with those conditions I saw in Mbale. He belittles the people of Mbale and Uganda by his appalling comments.