{"id":229760,"date":"2026-04-07T14:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-minister-ashamed-by-hospital-thefts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:32:55","slug":"mozambique-minister-ashamed-by-hospital-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-minister-ashamed-by-hospital-thefts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Minister &#8216;Ashamed&#8217; By Hospital Thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Health Minister Ussene Isse has said he feels ashamed by the theft of medicines from the country&#8217;s hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Giving the opening lecture in the Maputo Higher Institute of Health Sciences on Wednesday, Isse accused some health professionals of treating their patients &#8220;without the due humanism&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">&#8220;I feel very ashamed when we are questioned by the public&#8217;, he admitted. He recalled being told: &#8220;Mr Minister, here in your hospital they demand illicit charges. Here. in your hospital,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604020540.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambican Health Minister Ussene Isse has said he feels ashamed by the theft of medicines from the country&#8217;s hospitals. Giving the opening lecture in the Maputo Higher Institute of Health Sciences on Wednesday, Isse accused some health professionals of treating their patients &#8220;without the due humanism&#8217;. &#8220;I feel very ashamed when we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,22182,6362,5941,4704,682,257,254,10496],"class_list":["post-229760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ashamed","tag-hospital","tag-minister","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thefts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}