That takes some believing, because almost at the same time as he was issuing that press statement, a team of foreign surgeons engaging in humanitarian work inadvertenlty contradicted it. 
Hiyo inahitaji kuamini kwa kiasi fulani, kwa sababu karibu wakati ule ule alipokuwa anatoa taarifa yake kwa waandishi wa habari, timu ya wapasuaji ya kigeni inayojihusisha na kazi za kibinadamu walisema jambo lililotofautiana na matamshi yake.