Like other civil servants, health officials have not been getting their salaries regularly. That includes Lala — he has not received a paycheck since he started in February, and is living off his retirement savings.
Still, the opportunity to finally render service to his homeland is the capstone of his career, he said.
"For me, it is like another project, perhaps the biggest of my career," he said. "I owed something to my country, for all those years it invested in me that I never paid back. Now it is time, and I am here to do my best."
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