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Stop paying health workers from monthly grants- Dr. Miti

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The Ministry of health has directed District Directors of Health and Executive Directors to stop employing and paying health workers using monthly grants because the practice is illegal.

Permanent Secretary, Simon Miti sounded the warning in a circular dated 24 November,2008 and made available to ZANIS in Mazabuka yesterday.

Dr Miti said the continued employing of health workers and paying them using grants is an illegal practice because the ministry of health is not the employer.

He explained that employment of health workers is the prerogative of the Public Service Commission through the Public Service Management Division (PSMD).

Dr Miti further reminded the Directors that under the public finance Act 15 of 2004, part XVI clause 191 paying salaries from the operational grants constitutes misapplication of funds and attracts appropriate sanctions to the institution.

He said employment application forms should now be channeled through the office of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of health.

Meanwhile, several classified daily employees at Mazabuka District Hospital have lost their jobs following the directive by Dr. Miti.

The affected workers have however threatened to take legal action against the Ministry of health for breach of contract.

Mazabuka district hospital administrator, Esau Mujansi refused to comment and referred all queries to district director of health, Dr Namasiku Siyumbwa who could not be reached by press time.
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130 COMMENTS

  4. But Miti is not being sincere because this is what has been goin on all along. Give people proper guidelines then. If anything, these grants have helped people get salaries, although at a cost to patients and service delivery.
    Let us not pretend Ba Miti.

  5. Actually its unprofessional to show up at someones office without an appointment.This culture of stopping work to entertain govt officials is unproductive.I remember a time I was called of work because a Mrs So and So was coming to Chingola.I wondered why we were not informed in advance.Meetings and deadlines had to be postponed just so we could queue up and smile at a govt official ~X(

  9. For how long has this been going on? It leaves me Leaves me wondering whether the Dr has just noticed this trend …. interesting!

  11. Baby C

    I have just been greeting you somewhere naiwe. How are you, ok?
    ba Miti sibali honest, waziba ka. Pretending as if its a new Phenomenon (ni chizungu ichi ka?) 😕

  16. Babyc,ba moze,matworld,vayola and all bloggers….
    good morning guys,hope you are all well and have no monday blues.am ok just missed you all.good day

  18. #7 pumpy, it has been a trend to pay salaries from grants for those that are not on payroll and considered essential to the health institution. This was caused by the fact that the government had frozen recruitment for allegedly luck of funds during the CBoH tenure. This Miti was part of the Central Board of Health management then that decided that the HI start paying salaries for essential workers from the grants in agreement with the Donors. The problem now is that the CBoH was dissolved without clearly resolving the issue of those who were employed under what was called the Boards and the Govt cannot absolve most of the general workers, they have absolved most of the nurses, doctors & COs

  21. I feel sorry for PS Miti. This trend of paying casual workers (CDEs) from grants has been going on for years at almost all the hospitals. What PS Miti has failed to do is to provide leadership to resolve the matter. Simply asking Hospitals to stop is not good enough cos these CDEs in most cases do the odd jobs such as cleaning wards. If the are not there the hospital conditions get worse dirtwise. I was of the view that PS should have asked for names of these employees from all hospitals to formalise their appointments through the non active and docile PSMD while in the meantime continue paying them from the grant so that there is no gap in health delivery esp with cholera around.

  22. Ba Moze, Rashid,…

    My weekend was super! We beat, humiliated, clobbered,battered,revenged and sliced Hull into 3 fine pieces!

    :d/

  29. #20 Pumpy, Dr Miti has just become a true politician who can religiously eat his vomit anytime. I couldnt believe he can feign ignorance on the matter he was part of. Its shameful!!!! He should just tell the health workers what they should do in this case. I cant imagine a hospital without a cleaner, yes they less educated, but the nurses,doctors etc will not work in a stinking environment i.e without their support

  31. #21 Ndine..spot on, Dr Miti needs to provide Leadership here, I also expect him to have a good institution memory since he has been in the ministry longer than required as DG CBoH and PS

  33. **==
    moning ba moze,baby c,3Rqu, rashid jones..ladies and gentlemen…

    Ba miti is wrong,so he should start paying them then,coz those guys contribute to the well being of hospitals and clinics for ages now!!,why today?

  37. Ala I am now feeling better. Thanks to the attention I am finally getting. I was feeling grumpy earlier on, but this greeting thing has cheered me up…….once again, MULISHANI BONSE MWEBANA ZAMBIA :d/:)

  38. Morning fellow bloggers!! I am back from wondering in the wilderness of Eastern province. Hope you missed me because i sure did. This place has become like my other family.

  41. Lusaka

    Morning! i missed you too! especially ba Moze, rashid and Matworld, they missed like…. :o)~:>~o). Good to have you back.

  42. due to shortage of health workers, some of these people are retired civil servants that are still ready to help the Government, least they can do is give them contracts and put them on the payroll. indeed all this dates back to the days ofr former CBoH. PS Miti was indeed part of it. Today, former CBoH employees have not been given their dues after the disolution of CBoH. and PS Miti knows that. **==

  43. Rashid. My weekend was alright. Enjoyed revenge over Hull City.

    Rashid how long has this been going on for ba Miti to talk about it only now?

  45. Pumpy
    This is not the season for mbeba. I will be going soon though so that I dont miss out when the harvest starts.
    Baby C
    I missed you too. This morning is not long enough for me to do all the catching up.
    Bamoze, Matworld, Zoe. Where art thou?

  46. As for the story, my brother Miti just has nothing to say. He knows very well that CDEs and trainee students in health institutions are paid from grants. These CDEs actually do more that just clean the place but they also administer medication to patients. In some of these rural health centres, you will only find a nurse or clinical officer and the CDE. Once these CDEs begin to lose their jobs, can he even imagine what will happen in these places? Or does it not bother him in the least?

  48. 3RqU, im surprised cause Dr Miti has been in this ministry for over six years now and why should he raise this issue now. maybe he has been sleeping all this time and this is when he is waking up. Lets wait amd see

  51. Hello to those i have not greeted! Lusaka, Jens etc… Please let us all greet Kad’oyo. He was feeling dejected. Matworld alikwisa kanshi?? :)>-

  52. Lusaka am very much arnd,only tht LT is practising injustice on me.My postings r nt showing otherwise i have showered my greetings to EVERYONE.

  55. Matworld is nt feeling well.

    As for the topic at hand i feel Dr Miti thinks pipo hav forgoten his existance hence sayin this to remind u hes arnd. Dr also gets his allowances frm the grants. I recall being in the same hostel at college wth his dota,he gave her 100pounds evry month as pocket money.

  62. Ba LT.People have no data on this topic.They are just greating each other.can you bring on something new please?.Atau ba bloggee?

  67. Morning bloggers, dont dispair GaZZie will be back.
    Meanwhile, Ba Moze, Baby C, Matworld and Ba Chale keep warming the blog for the BSG(Blog Secretary General).

  68. Matworld
    Ati you are sick? Sorry. You need tuma TLC manje you are very far from home. Who is taking care of you? In the meantime, speedy recovery. You are LT’s mediator and so we need you.
    Pola mwandini.

  69. Yes ba Moze, I’m fine. Zo ona we will pray for Matworld to recover quickly, infact our prayers have already been answered. Amen!:)

    Imw ba #62 ishina ububi…ati Chichiman. What’s wrong with greeting one another on the blogg? It’s Monday & we all missed each other!

  70. Lusaka hold yo fire, i meant goin 2getha.It wasnt hers.Baby C had hers in 2007. =d>=d>

    Nine Chale iwe,i said kitchen party ninshi kanshi do u nid :-b:-b:-b

  71. # 55 i think some people are just selffish. you know people are really suffering, they cant take their children to school and someone is thinking of throwing them in the cold. this Miti has over stayed, i think RB should be advised to bring in new blood. his has cloated. these salaries that he is crying about are not even near to 100 pounds.

  73. #69
    That’s my pseudo name bro.I don’t care what you think about it.And hey, I didn’t say greeting on the blogg is wrong.

  74. Lusaka

    I cant do that mama. Infact you will be my Chief fimofimo on that day!

    Zoe

    That was my twin sister’s kitchen party! have you forgotten? Ok when is yours? Hmmm! wait a minute, girls , how about giving me your email addresses???

  75. #71 u can imagine thts why i brot out tht issue coz tht 100pounds is slightly more than wat a mere civil servant gets.How heartless sum pipo can be.Crying over grant aided money,kwati shabo ba Miti,dnt embarass me, sony ericsson and Lusaka who r frm Eastern tatulibatani.

  80. Ba Moze, I agree with you on #78. I feel so uplifted after greeting the nice people on this blogg. After that I can’t even afford to practice any hate against my fellow bloggers. Ni fi love chabe!:)>-

  82. Baby C,r u telin the truth?Ok mine is in 2010,am waitin 4 a sent frm heaven ukesa ku world cup [-x[-x[-x dnt let Matworld hear this.
    Baby C My email is [email protected]. Iyo balatukalipila ba Maestro twalaba mute.

  83. and on the other side, these chaps and their families are usually evacuated to SA for even malaria treatment. they dont get it, that smell in the wards, outpatients only those that are familiar with it would want a highly staffed workforce to keep the clinics and hospitals sane. nowonder the nurses and doctors have gone off to work in other countries where they are more appreciated. it starts with cleaniless, more hygienic environment, medicines, uniforms, salaries etc.

  85. Owe nambala 81 3RqU unjeleleko boyi…I did’nt even see you. Uli shani mwana?

    Baby C, now everybody has your email address. Ine I just want to know where to send your Birthday present…:d

  87. Zoe

    You are naughty! Ine nabankalipila kale on topic, Mr Minister…..

    Thanx sweety, i will send you a ka email shortly 😡

  90. Nine Chale..

    Thats not mine.. naimmwe, mulefwaya Zoe akekatilepo ka present? anyway she cant do that, she is my good friend.

  91. Sad that people were appointed to be executive directors of our health institutions but they did not know the law!
    I suppose that that is what happens when ‘nepotism’ is rife.

  93. Yaba, Baby C I think I really need :-b this morning. Anyway, don’t worry…we shall work it out.

    Nomba ncite ko comment pali srory mwe…kuti ba kwiya ba LT.

  94. #84 ba moze i beg u in the name of God pliz dnt do tht,u knw u r my gud frnd.How can i bribe.Kaili we r all corrupt,wat shud i do 2seal yo mouth?

  97. Mudumbu wane Dr Simon Kamwendo Miti, the best place for you is to join your predecessor Dr Kashiwa Bulaya at Chimboz

  98. making constructive contributions on this site is very difficult because pipo have made friends, – yes which is good but diverting topics. Number 91 one says this, 92 and 93 say something else. mmm its difficult but i wish it could be the other way. LT let there be a section where friends can just chat or else this thing is loosing it….

  99. # 98 Nine

    I know how you feel. Its just that at some point, you run out of contributions you know. I mean, how much more on this topic can you contribute?? Especially that we are talking about Simon Miti??

  100. #95 Rashid Jones, I was busy chasing Euros last week$-). Otherwise I’m fine…and you, my friend? What’s the latest? Where is Pinkly?

    After reading this story twice, I still can’t come up with a more reasonable comment than: employment is vital but everything should be done in through the appropriate channels.

  103. #98 Dont worry much , the bros and sistelez just missed one anaza pa weekend. You must understand that this is a FAMILY. Tis explains the outpouring of empathy at the illness of one Matworld(get wel soon).They will get back to biz in no time ….
    Yours
    GaZZie SG

  105. Nine Chale,im fine man. you are right, its difficult to comment on this story.The issue of Pinkly is a long one. Im just worried about the load that Obama is carrying. I feel our expectations from him are too much

  107. Miti Killed CBoH and the health system in Zambia has gone down with it. He is just pretendining for he was part of the system before he bootlicked his usual way up to the present position and I can bet my ass that he signed cheques at Ndola DHMT, Ndola central Hospital and indeed at the Provincila health offfice to pay from the health workersd for the grants.
    Cholera has come to stay with the likes of Miti still bootlicking with each new Government in power.

  110. GaZZie the Gunner says, ‘LT give us something new before we start chaffing our sisters ka!’

    Hull chi … howchi … houchi! cried Hull City.

  111. Iwe boyi 3RqU and Baby c, i didnt know you guys were GUNNERS… get out of the closet and make some NOISE! Too bad Mattie is unwell, but he will be well soon ..

  112. Rashid am ok bachilanchinga ba LT i was jus on the reading side.

    Ba Moze,honestly hw can u do that,mwanjipaya.Naya nokuya.

  113. GaZZie I go to our games. It`s expensive but since the Emirates opened I have been 6 times now.

    You need to come and see it.

    :d

  118. Tito, local soccer wil be developed but it will take a long tym coz most of our players are in the foreign clubs,so kubakonka and support them.Meanwhile ine ni “Never walk l-)” win or lose.

  119. Tito

    Develop what? the likes of Power dynamos and Nakambala Leopards? Umupila walipwa pa Zed! too much disappointments!

  121. Hallo #1-120 Haach the third to 3RqU!!! Good to hear the greetings kwati ni pa Radio 1. That is what makes us unique as people of Zambeziland…Mutende mwane! Mwakola! Muzuhile cwani! Kamwamba! Mujibyepi:-\” Bwanji? alive and kicking:d/ May God be praised for each one of you.

    Manje coming to Miti’s comments…Not so long ago the guy was in soup with the Auditor General over his unexplained expenditure of millions in his Ministry. Do these workers need to be paid? If so who should pay them. Miti himself has the answer… Every worker deserves his dues.

  123. The problem is not about paying workers from grants but the confusion in the system.
    It is like a situation where a company produces contaminated foods from which people die when they eat it. The problem is not that people die but the contamination in the food which causes people to die.
    Let people stop passing blame on these health management directors. we must understand that this practice of employing and paying workers from grants is happening everywhere in the country; dont tell me that is coincidence, no. These people must have been given either an instruction or a go ahead to do what they are doing.
    Goverment must admit that there is a week system in place.

  125. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THAT AT ONE TIME WHEN GOVT BANNED EMPLOYING ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE (STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT, HIPC ETC) NO HEALTH WORKERS WERE EMPLOYED BY THE SERVICE COMMISSION. HOSPITALS AND DISTRICT DIRECTORS USED THEIR INITIATIVE AND EMPLOYED NURSES,CDEs AND PHARMACISTS SO THAT HOSPITALS AND H/CENTRES COULD CONTINUE RUNNING. THEY ARE BEING PAID THEIR SALARIES FROM THE MONTHLY OPERATIONAL GRANTS. WITHOUT THIS THESE HWs WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS. DR MITI KNOWS WHY THESE PEOPLE WERE EMPLOYED AND WHAT HE NEEDS TO DO IS TO REGULARISE THIS INSTEAD OF WRITING CIRCULARS.

  127. No. 18-Most nurses and doctors were absorbed. This is good but what should happen to those who were left out. Should they be flushed out like junk. Don’t they deserve even a gratuity for the service they offered?

  128. If i was the appointing authority, i would ask DR MITI to immidiately pack and go. this is serious incompetence on his part.

    Its unfair to disappoint fellow Drs who are doing so much for the poor.Has been working over the past several years of this initgiative by the galant Directors of health services at district and provincial levels?

  129. You tumbukas are very dull people,you see hiow can you allow such embezzlements when you were the control.ling officer,you are part of the scam am told you wear very expensive shoes from Germany worth k3m illion per month.
    Lock him up he is also a culprit

  130. I am curious to find out what blog system you’re using? I’m having some minor security problems with my latest website and I’d like to find something more safeguarded. Do you have any recommendations?

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