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Breaking news update on IHK:

IHK and its parent organization IMG (International Medical Group) now has a new vision statement, or is it mission statement: ‘Providing Healthcare to International Standards’

Not surprisingly, it took a 3-day strategic planning session with hired consultants and all of the IMG’s top managers to come up with this new mission/vision statement which is even slightly more vague and even more impossible to measure than the previous vision statement: ‘Making a Difference in Healthcare for Uganda.’

Healthcare, unfortunately doesn’t have any ‘international standards.’ Even the US and the UK can’t agree on something as simple as CPR (the American Heart Association teaches breaths before compression while the British Heart Association teaches compressions before breaths). Who’s going to set the ‘international standards?’ Will they be set in Europe, or Asia, or the Americas? Boston or Bangladesh? And if they are set, will they even be applicable in Uganda?