How many polio patients get the proper vaccine ? Will the Health officials get a Maserati?

"As PNGi revealed in February, the audit revealed widespread failures throughout the medical supply and distribution chain which, it claimed, have persisted and not been addressed over several years.. These legendary issues and challenges have remained unaddressed over the last 4 years causing continued deterioration of unavailability of life saving and essential drugs to treat patients at the health facilities throughout the country”.

The audit revealed widespread opportunities for fraud, overpayments to contractors totalling as much as K80 million a year,..But such revelations were not new. In 2013, a Burnet Institute evaluation and later a 2016 a USAid report revealed the same widespread problems involving many of the same companies and managers."

Unfortunately NNN corruption at all levels is systemic in many third world countries. Those in a position of authority on meagre wages use their position to supplement their incomes through corruption or theft.

A little example; When I first started going to Fiji and using the public bus system, something most visiting Europeans don't do, and something I was surprised by was the sign at the front door, which read in bold letters 'DEMAND YOUR TICKET'. I got on the bus and asked the driver for a ticket to X, he politely told us to sit down. As people got on, they simply sat down, strange didn't pay. But as they got off they gave the driver a few coins as payment for the ride, which he put in his cash box, no Opal cards there. The penny dropped, the sign, the driver, the passenger, the cash, what I found out later was the driver would tally the take from the low paid "fares" and rip off some appropriate amount of tickets for the bus company, and rip off a little cash for himself at the same time.Everybody's happy, well hummm... I don't know.

The penny drops. . "Port Moresby has no shortage of taxis, and you'll usually be able to find one outside a hotel or the airport, and in Boroko. Practically none will agree to use meters, so negotiate the price before setting off. " Maserati fares will kicked-back to Chinese bankers who have friendly loans for impoverished taxi franchises.

Hi NNN, in Fiji any ordinary local with a car is a "Taxi".

Local pulls up; :Bula, how are you today?
Me; Itau bula vinarka, I am buenos, vacava tiko?
Local; I am Nikko, I am good today. Are you from New Zealand... where are you going on this day.
Me; No Australian, going down to the village.
Local; I drive you.
Me; Vinarka, but we walk, not far..... Nikko moce, maybe you drive us next time.

That is about the extent of my Fijian.

Shopping trips are a joy in the Maserati , easily nipping down to the corner store at 240kph. A quick trip up the Mt Hagen freeway passing logging trucks and war-parties is a breeze thanks to double rear bogeys with snow-chains and cable winching from the 2 ton Whitworth anchor-haul . Titanium roll-bars are fitted at O'Neill Parliamentary Hot-Money Welding for that trip of a lifetime.

Can't say I've done a lot of shopping in the Maserati, Nick, prefer to take the Ferrari myself. Lucky the PNG people didn't go for the Ferrari, as Enzo once famously said while waiting for the bus; "If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it!"