Some Luwingu residents are allegedly shunning to be admitted to the district hospital due to alleged poor standards of hygiene at the health institution.
This came to light when a number of village headmen attending the Ilamfya traditional ceremony held at Chief Chipalo’s palace in Luwingu last week complained to the Acting District Commissioner, Hassan Siambelele, over the deteriorating standards of hygiene at the district hospital.
The village headmen complained that some of their subjects were refusing to be admitted to the district hospital for fear of contracting other diseases because of poor health conditions.
The headmen have since appealed to the Provincial Health Director to urgently visit
the institution in order to address the situation.
They lamented that the development has also forced the only expatriate doctor to
threaten to leave the institution if no immediate measures are taken to improve the
situation.
They observed that the district hospital had no proper linen and mattresses forcing
patients to carry their material whenever they were admitted.
And reacting to the concerns, Mr. Siambelele assured the headmen that government was
doing everything possible to improve standards at the district hospital.
The acting district commission said government through the Ministry of Health
releases monthly grants to facilitate the smooth running of health institutions and
urged management to ensure that the funds were used for the intended purpose.
And efforts to get a comment from the Provincial Health Director failed as he was
reported to be out of the office by press time.
This is an amazing story. It takes you just 50 kilometers drive out of Lusaka to see some unbelievable forms of human existence.
The only way to address these depressing inequities is to legislate for a decentralized system. We got some data on student enrolment at UNZA and CBU and the trends are truly disburbing. Almost no admission from some districts that used to produce good students. Because of liberalization, a student from Mbala sec with 13 points cant go to UNZA bacause of too many 7 points from schools around urban areas.
So, it this system had applied in the past, alot of people that were schooled in rural public schools would not have been where they are.
Similarly, if you live in Chadiza and suffer from a maternal complication the end result is almost inevitably death. Why are we doing such injustice to our rural folks?
BA PF MP PLEASE GET DOWN TO WORK OR WE WIL NOT VOTE FOR IN 2011.LUWINGU ULWASASE UWATUPALWAMOCHA.AS BA
MULENGA FORMER MP. NO JOKE’S ANY MORE OKAY.