missing middle indeed

Today I stumbled unto a midwife's blog calling herself a "baby catcher". The symbolism of baby catching is rightly proclaimed because sensing from her writing, she is actually catching the babies from their mothers' wombs to save them from the impossible conditions under which they are borne. The baby catcher talks about suffering, pain and hopelessness and yet there are so few hands to help. It makes me angry that more than 40 years after independence our mothers should continue to die from preventable conditions and diseases. It is disheartening that while our leaders engage in political battles of supremacy and building political empires hospitals are going without adequate facilities and personnel to take care of simple procedures like child births. What is missing in the whole picture? The 'middle'? I long to see the day when leadership in Malawi will be people centred and not self centred.