CBS News
American doctor Dave Warner is on a mission in eastern Afghanistan to show people back home how billions of taxpayer dollars sent here are being wasted.
“When I was here in December,” Warner told CBS News chief forign correspondent Lara Logan. “This was full so you can see they’ve dug another pit over here.”
Rotting bio-waste is dumped in the hospital’s backyard because as Warner and the hospital director showed us next – the new waste incinerator donated by the U.S. government is completely useless. Even if the hospital knew how to run it, they can’t afford the fuel.
“It’s not used very often “¦ at all,” he said.
It was a gift from the American people.
“Isn’t that nice?” Warner said.
Warner is a public health expert from San Diego who’s taken it upon himself to do what no one else in Afghanistan seems to be doing – documenting the failures in reconstruction. He says the system can’t be fixed unless those responsible first admit that it’s broken.
But it’s a hard sell. Warner says he has tried to report his findings to officials at the Pentagon.
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