Dear Tembisa Hospital Executives
I, like the president and many South Africans, was shocked at the news of the alleged skinny jeans purchase.
An excerpt from a news report:
' Last year, ahead of the third coronavirus wave in June, the hospital reportedly spent R500,000 on skinny jeans.'
Skinny jeans are a vast improvement on those almost indecent hospital gowns currently in vogue. I salute you for your bold, innovative approach to hospital couture. However, skinny jeans are notoriously difficult to get on and off. I'd hate to expire in the operating theatre because I couldn't get the jeans off in time. And what about blood circulation?
One story is that each pair cost R2500. I could have sourced them at a fraction of the price. How big or small a fraction to be negotiated. (Remember that nine tenths is also a fraction). With my Cuban contacts, I can churn out thousands of pairs of jeans in no time. The MERDE brand is big in Africa and even on other continents, particularly with fashion-conscious politicians, tenderpreneurs and their ilk.
Instead of proudly taking credit for the imaginative move, someone modestly attributed it to a typing error:
'Mthunzi has now said that the money was actually for sutures required by surgeons: “They actually punched the wrong material code when they were buying”. (ewn.co.za).
Perfectly understandable. I tested the theory. On typing the word 'sutures' one hundred times at speed, i found that in five instances I had actually typed "skinny jeans". Damn these QWERTY keyboards!
Dear executive, despite all the fuss, I would not entirely abandon the foray into hospital haute couture. Remember that they laughed at Galileo.
Yours in the struggle for medical advances.
Richard
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