SIX family members suffering from a disease affecting the nervous system in Kitwe’s Chimwemwe Township have been admitted to Kitwe Central Hospital (KCH).
Both KCH executive director John Mwewa and Kitwe district epilepsy and mental health coordinator, Peter Chalwe confirmed the development in separate interviews yesterday.
Mr Chalwe said the family was supposed to be taken to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka but that they had been advised that they go through KCH.
Mr Chalwe said that he had been tasked to assess the family and come up with a report, which he had done.
He said his assessment of the condition was that the disease was not mysterious as it had been reported, but that it affected the central nervous system.
Mr Chalwe said the family needed social support and mobility.
The six members of the same family were yesterday taken to KCH while the seventh one, William Sakala died last week.
Those admitted were Green Sakala, Elina Sakala, Stephen Sakala and Catherine Simbeye.
Others were Isaac Sakala and Judith Sakala, all of house number 6764/5 in Chimwemwe Township.
And Dr Mwewa said that the family would be admitted to KCH in Luapula and Mkushi medical wards.
He said experts comprising four doctors would today arrive from Lusaka to make a diagnosis on the family.
Dr Mwewa said the KCH would then wait for recommendations from the doctors before deciding on the next step.
Earlier, the wife of Green Sakala and mother of the rest of the affected family members, Regina, thanked the Government for helping her.
Mrs Sakala said she was happy that God had heard her prayers and that the Government had intervened.
She lamented that she had already lost three members of the family from the same disease.-Times of Zambia
Iwe Mrs Sakala, kamba bwino. Why just your family? and why were you spared? Ndiye vamene nikana ine. siumvela iwe mai sakala. just the other day DC anapeza njoka mu office. reason? Obviously ntwenu. Tell us the truth. I wish your family a quick recovery and may the souls of those who have departed rest in peace. But iwe, you need to explain!
MMmm Ba Moze ya how ukuchita accusse amai Sakala?
Badly writen article…………………..Ba Moze.. stop pointing fingers… maybe its a different version of swine flu… shame.. i wish them a quicky……………ofcourse recovery!…
So there are no experts in Kitwe te?.. Ba govt.. please do something about the skill you loosing to other countries that embrace them more..its an emergency
Pompi mudala, shilemona bwino, ka.
Miss daisy, Govt has actually constituted a commitee of experts to study this matter. Am also told a tribunal is being set up to investigate (immediately) the conditon of RBs knee, lest we have a state funeral!!!
yay… i hope he resigns ba Moze… thats what we call ama labbish…….eish.. hes failed us!!!
Copperbelt nako, i remember in the 90s there was another family which was haunted by fire.even when they tried to dump their clothes in water they kept on burning.i cant just remember who rescued that family from the mayhem.otherwise it was a mystery
Shame sad story. God cure and help them please. Amen.
hmmm..that illness only God knows, I have never seen such, the entire family except for one person grounded! God help them!!!
This sounds like KURU or CJD, the authorities might want to check their deits and pots because if only the family is affected thats a sign it’s food related.
#1 Ba Moze on “Iwe Mrs Sakala, kamba bwino. Why just your family? and why were you spared”? May be what ever it is, is genetic. I would like to think its from the husbands part of the family thats why the wife has been spared. Sad though.
whatever happened to their planned trip to prophet,bishop or whatever Joshua to be cured.no wonder MMD has ruled for 18 years,Zambians can be so gullible sometimes
Iwe Ba moze # 1, May God bless you abandantly and I pray that He forgives you because you seem not to be mature enough to realise other people’s problems. Please be advised to feel sorry for others in their pain instead of antagonising them.
We thank God now that the gov’t has realised that it needs to help. However, the gov’t can still do better by flying that family to even more specialised people in place like SA before its too late. We are not undermining our local doctors but to seek as much specialised help as possible. Fellow Zambians let us remember this family in prayer.