It is reported that Magufuli has been on a ventilator for much of this week, and that his family has been kept in the dark about his developments. For the first three days of his illness, attempts were made to treat him at the state house using medics from the Muhimbili National Hospital.
Several ministers who spoke to SAUTI KUBWA until today said they did not have any whereabouts of the president, as they have been consumed in the wind of existing speculations regarding his deteriorating health.
It is understood that TISS was happy on the way the Nairobi version caught the attention of global media. And they are apparently planning to use this single media flop as evidence that all that has been reported and tweeted about Magufuli is false.
Some reports said the president was starting to respond positively to medical treatment, and that should everything go well enough, his aides would organise a simple event in which he would be seen in public, albeit briefly, as a way of dispelling the speculations about his ill health – and to show the people that he was not flown to India.