Senior Chief Kazembe of the Lunda people in Kazembe district says his subjects are in dire need of drugs and medical staff.
And Kawambwa District Commissioner Ivo Mpasa has welcomed government’s planned construction of a district hospital.
Speaking when Deputy Minister of Health Christopher Mulenga paid a courtesy call on him at his palace, the Mwata said his subjects are complaining of lack of adequate medical personnel.
He therefore urged government to address the health challenges the district was facing.
The Chief explained that currently, the district only has four nurses, one Laboratory Technician, and one Environmental Lab Technician who are over worked as they have to serve a population of over 10,000 people.
He also urged government to consider training more medical staff who he said should be patriotic enough to be ready to work in any part of the country including his chiefdom.
The Mwata commended government for its health schemes aimed at addressing various health challenges being faced country wide.
The Mwata expressed happiness at government’s decentralisation system which will enable public service workers to be confirmed by Permanent Secretaries in their respective Provinces.
He said many of his subjects have not yet been confirmed, saying he will take it upon himself to compile the list of their names and submit it to the Provincial Permanent Secretary.
And Health Deputy Minister Christopher Mulenga assured the Chief that government would address the issue of shortage of medical staff urgently.
Mr Mulenga said it is government’s desire to ensure that all medical personnel are ready to work anywhere including rural areas.
The Deputy Minister also disclosed that government will soon open more health training centres to meet the current shortage of staff country wide.
He also said government will reopen as all the closed health training facilities.
The Health Deputy Minister also disclosed that government has come up with a new Health Social Security Insurance Fund which will be implemented in August this year.
Mr Mulenga explained that the insurance fund will replace the traditional user medical fees which he said are costly for citizens.
He explained that government will start with public service workers in implementing the medical insurance fund and later roll out to the private sector.
And Kawambwa District Commissioner Ivo Mpasa also commended government for its efforts in setting up health facilities country wide.
Mr Mpasa also thanked government for its plans to give Kawambwa district an ambulance, saying the move has come at the right time as the district is in dire need of an ambulance, a situation he said forced his office to surrender one of its vehicles to ferry patients.
Mwata Kazembe expressed happiness at government’s decentralisation system which will enable public service workers to be confirmed by Permanent Secretaries in their respective Provinces.
He said many of his subjects have not yet been confirmed, saying he will take it upon himself to compile the list of their names and submit it to the Provincial Permanent Secretary.
Earlier, Provincial Medical Health Officer Dr Elicho Bwalya disclosed that the process of confirmation in the public service will be done at provincial and district levels.
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All those witch doctors in the kingdom are fake. Ba Mwata just confirmed.
All those witch doctors in the kingdom are fake. Ba Mwata just confirmed.
Train people who already live there as medical personnel otherwise nobody from Lusaka or copperbelt is moving there!
Wonder how he found it fit to refer to people in his kingdom as ”subject”
The whole of zambia is in dire need of a total health system revamp. As far as im concerned there is no health system to speak of in zambia. Very poor, very inefficient, very backward.
#3 “bantu bandi” in bemba does not mean subjects in english
Yet these ministers are making utterances daily about them being in great hurry to develop…one wonders what the really mean – they are unable to deliver mere basics!!
10000 vs less than 10 health workers, i can imagine the stress that those health workers go through, health issues needs to be looked into urgently. im sure its not just this area alone, there are many places in Zambia with similar challenges. As we are developing these other sectors, we should as well look into the health system.
What was MMD doing there for two decades? Duh….. Is it a case of courting the wrong fellas or just plain incompetence in governance issues?
We know the real issues about health care delivery but we seem to pretend as if the problems are new.As long as we continue blaming each other and not facing the real issues,the health care in this country for the majority of the zambians will remain pathetic.
I cant just put blame on the Government on this one, i know many civil servants decline from being posted to remote rural areas, in as much as there maybe a number of good nurses and doctors in our country, everyone wants to remain in the big Apple next to the visibilities if shopping malls and big lights at night, this tells you that most of the people we have in these fields do it to survive but not with passion, my suggestion is, modernise the entire Zambia, bring shopping malls and huge lights, improve technology everywhere, in no time we will…., well, what i would call, a “supper power in Africa”! Am i dreaming? maybe, but who wants to go rural?
Ba Mwata are the 10,000 sick at the same time?what happened the traditional birth attendants in villages.
@10, I want to be rural. Shopping malls and big lights are ugly…light pollution makes it more difficult to sleep. Look at shift workers in America, you work the night shift and your health suffers, I know from experience. People were not meant to be up in the late hours of the night, but now everything here is open 24/7. And there are still many people in the U.S. who live in rural areas, they have more amenities than Zambians in ku mushi, but still, not everyone wants to live next to Manda Hill. Put bonuses on rural post positions, and require all trained health workers to spend X amount of years at rural posts, that will improve the health care worker shortage in villages.
Senior Chief Mwata Kazembe of the Lunda people is yet to await for the worst from the PF Govt. We have never forgotten how Sata insulted FTJ Chiluba in life and after his death. A snake will never transform into a lizard because God has evolved two different species of reptiles on this planet. These are the fruits of supporting a dragon monster for a State Presidency. Senior Chief Kazembe should just join us in our silent prayer for God to redeem His People.
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