Five workers at Levy Mwanawasa Hospital have tested positive for COVID-19

1. We hear nurses have been told to buy their own face masks, how true is that bwana minister?

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   • I know this guy us trying his best to get through this pandemic. OK if one mask is being provided and a users can buy her why not. Mind you can use one mask the whole day for different operations. That the issue with health care workers PPE that has cost live and also in Zambia the infected ones

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   • meant you cant use one mask the whole day. . Am high on my 15year old whisky. Quarantine issues

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2. Some good news for UPND and its cadres. Let us see what the likes of Tarino Orange have to say. Dr Chilufya, looking at the world trends health workers are mostly at risk. Please follow world trends if we are to survive this pandemic.

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3. Kalikeka shut up. Zambians with assumptions like yours are the reason why our country has not progressed in a long time. Give us the sources of who told you nurses have not been given ppe equipment or shut up. This is no time to alarm us with no evidence.

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4. “Dr. Chilufya also said the country has adequate personal protective equipment for health workers to ensure that there is NO disruption in the fight against the disease.”

   Something amiss here, if there is enough protective clothing for health workers, proper training, and proper procedures to protect them from unnecessary exposure to infection, how come within a short time we have such a high number of infection among health workers? It seems our praise of your leadership is premature. We shll test you on this one score: protection for health workers. If tomorrow we hear one more is infected, time to resign bosses, you have failed.
   And please be truthful, obviously you thought tgat this coukd be hidden but the numbers are too much to hide, or rig, as they say in politics.

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5. COVID-19 is a ticking time bomb that shouldn’t be left to Chilufya and Chilosha to lead the fight. What counts most are our individual efforts and it includes everyone. Health workers are no exception, in fact they should even be more careful. The Indian, Chinese and Lebanese communities must be honest in their dealings with COVID-19, their lack of transparency is putting many lives in danger. My appeal is to every Zambian to be vigilant and report all suspicious cases to authorities. Mzungu anikonde will take you and others to the grave. Report all Indians that are sick in homes, report all suspicious Chinese in warehouses and factories, don’t accept to secretly tend sick Lebanese in homes or secluded places. Your individual effort counts!

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6. Lord have mercy! This is not good at all. I wonder what protection is being given to health workers….

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7. Sad development. This virus is really contagious. I hope our Health workers that have tested positive didn’t transmit Covid 19 to their families.
   DRC today had 18 people that tested positive for Covid 19. Considering that this disease is highly contagious, we have to be very strick on the way Zambians and Congolese interact on the borders between Zambia and DRC. I think Bowman Lusambo can do a very good job there.

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8. So those nurses where not trained?how much money have you received from well wishes?buy PPE for those people otherwise no one is going to attend us when will fall sick .

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9. When we cloak at least a week without recording any new cases after testing hundreds and hundreds of people in that one week that’s when we can comfortably say we have conquered the virus. The battle is still fresh

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10. Health workers are the ones that are mostly at risk. Around the world this disease is afflicting them. The need to give all the bonuses for every MP to every health care worker of Zambia. The real front line of defense and offense against this covid scourge. Prayers for our doctors nurses medical practitioners and other supporting personnel. No politicking here Zambian lives first.

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11. Iwe Nzelu, Kabusha takolelwe bowa, the question is not for you, but for the minister, watesha ati mune?

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12. Today I agree with the Ayatollah these Asian communities need to integrate with Zambians on all fronts. The new Africans are not like the old that use to just smile aimlessly. We are God’s children and everyone shall from now on be African when the step onto the continent. Leave your affiliations in Shanghai, Mecca and Mumbai. Everyone should be fighting this disease together.

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13. Where are the donations going? Why are you keeping the donations? health are not protected Chilufya!!!! Now look at what is happening Chilufya!!!

    Kellys

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14. Kalikeka, even if the question is for the minister, you have to provide sources. Days of hearsay should be long behind us. With info even I will accost the minister and his ministry. In fact if you give us info we shall call the ministry of health, seeking clarification. I like you are concerned with our medical personnel and Zambians at large. This is a fight we as a people of the nation and Africa should fight as one. In fact the whole planet. Kalikeka if you have sources I am manning up and apologizing forthwith.

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15. Expand serosurveys side by side with nasal swab tests also to help estimate and determine the timing of infection,how widely the virus could have affected the overall population,to help also isolate those healthy workers who could be infected ,Isolation of silent spreaders who could be transmitting the virus unknowingly will be curtailed also including further helpful research in those recoveries

    That is what i am being sensitized and so far Good works i stemming the virus by the Zambian Health Authorities by we need to increase the population of those tested and areas

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16. With these five new cases involving the health workers, the likelihood of recording more cases is very high considering the fact that those health workers have homes and in those homes some are married which means husbands or wives might be infected too, including kids or whoever they came in contact with before they were tested. This is a sad development really. Guys let us be cautious.
    #Stay home and stay safe.
    #wear a face mask when in public places

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17. Iwe Nzelu, of course you know that I can not expose my source on social media for known reasons. However, be assured that I have written to MOH to verify this. My source is in Eastern Province as a tip.

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18. What Health workers? You be specific a Nurse, Doctor are Health workers …why is this man in the fore front of these announcements? Is there no Chief Medical Officer ….the Minister said they are investigating a suspicious death of a 52-year-old, who died shortly after being admitted to the UTH..Choma resident was asthmatic. Here is another referral patient moved to UTH unknowingly. You wonder what screening procedure is at these hospitals in the out side Lusaka and at UTH. …there must be a lot of exposure. In most Hospitals and clinics patients are been vetted so as they are sent to dedicated covid-19 wards.

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19. The disease has spread outside Lusaka sadly if you have underlying issues and you live outside Lusaka I doubt you will survive like this Choma patient …this is why I asked three weeks ago how many ventilators and test kits Chilufya has. If its clear Choma clinic didnt have anything to ascertain the problem…Chilufya is putting alot of our health workers in harms way.

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20. @kci
    COVID-19 is never good news for UPND.

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21. Nabi Nzelu, uli che laka boi? Son of a pastor.

22. @KCI YOU ARE A DISGRACE.

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23. Kalikeka well stated family. From the West to the East we are one. Also thanks for writing to the ministry. We should in fact all call them or write. Where can we donate so as our health workers get the MG90 masks? This is great news that Zambians are stepping up. Prayers and blessings plus self adorations for all.

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24. This minister is dodgy, he is quick to point out asthma before underlying the cause of death, why not just tell us that he is still investigating the cause of death. But we warned you guys to be serious, the situation maybe worse as we approach cold months. My prayer to the entire nation of Zambia.

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25. Eight nurses and doctors COVID positive? Failing leadership, Dr Chilufya?.Those should have been the first frontline staff to protect. When we hear from other countries that these frontline staff are risking their lives to protect people, we should not misinterpret that to mean their governments have not made efforts to protect them, its the magnitude of the problem.
    All PPE donations should first be targetted to the people who will look after us, otherwise who will be left to look after both of us commoners and you leaders since COVID-19 does not choose?

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26. “On Saturday, 11th April 2020, Hon. Alan Kyerematen, Minister for Trade and Industry in Ghana paid a working visit to four Ghanaian Garment Manufacturing companies in Accra.

    The companies have been selected by the Akufo-Addo Administration to produce Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for the frontline health workers leading the fight against the Corona Virus Pandemic.”

    See what I mean? Not the branded campaign materials pretending to be protective face masks. Just sinking … payers money into the deep well.

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27. Fighting covid-19 the Zambian way may prove catastrophic, this is not chorela disease which can be easily detected through our naked eyes, you were rushing to lockdown a simple and small Kafue town and forget about the Lusaka a city itself and even entire country. The warning sounds were all over, HH told you and we echoed the sound. It is very shameful to deal with PF government.

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28. Kz, this foool tarino is askin useless questions where are you today to respond to this pycomat,

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29. Madilu system – That’s because he has just sent the deceased’s blood samples to his one and only test lab in Lusaka for the whole of the country…just like that girl from Bauleni who came in clinic for Poisoning the tested postive after she was dead…you dont have to an FBI agent to see what is happening here. I pray that this covid-19 doesn’t spread in my country as people especially outside Lusaka will just be dying as their will lack facilities to treat them and they will carry out tests after Patient are gone.

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30. Nurses are buying their own PPE. My wife is a nurse at UTH..she just bought a gown and masks yesterday due to the scarcity

31. The sad reality is that even with maximum protective equipment, health workers will always remain at high risk because of the nature of their job. Anyhow, testing positive does not mean that one is on the death bed. Here in Germany, there is even a recommendation to deploy recovered doctors and nurses to the ICU since they are already immune. Wishing the 4 at Levy Mwanawasa Hospital a quick recovery.

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32. We will need a profile backed by tests across the areas and facilities even as the decision to open up some areas in lock downs is made or further lock downs are made

    Its only through tests and tests of contacts that the minister is doing that the clear informed profile can be revised and updated and proper intervention measures are announced and put in

    So More tests in the areas to assure the public and avoid locking down the communities uninformed who should be informed on the unfolding virus moves to safeguard themselves and their communities

33. Only an id1ot can rely on these figures.

    Did you know that Zambia has reported the highest recovery rate from this virus in the world of 54%?

    If you do not believe me, check the statistics.

    Then come back and tell me that we should rely on what we are being told.

    Just protect yourselves, wash your hands. Stay at home.

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34. In Italy at least 2,629 health workers have been infected by coronavirus since the onset of the outbreak in February, representing 8.3 percent of total cases, according to a report published on by Gruppo Italiano per la Medicina Basata sulle Evidenze or GIMBE .
    Here in zambia the percentage is already high if you do your math, its something to worry about.

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35. I took a drive around Lusaka today and saw 1 out of 50 wearing masks. It is simply not happening.

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36. Here comes Nine Chale from Germany to sing to us whilst sitting on the fence …no maximum protective clothing will drastically reduce chances of exposure to covid-19 please dont come here to tell porkies you are not talking 5 year old kids…in most of these cases I doubt the nurse in Choma even knew what they were dealing with hence refereed the patient to UTH and lack the PPE. Did I not tell you to quizz Chilufya for answers…alot of people will be dying on their way to UTH…he doesnt even know what is happening.

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37. Lets pray for them and encourage our front line soldiers, please stay protected we rely on you medical staffs, God bless you.

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38. ON top of prayer give them PPE and well sized N95 masks.Cause some masks are like bowls for soup, over size.

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39. I think government needs to move quickly (if they have not done so yet) to make testing for COVID mandatory if your visit a health facility for any ailment. Private hospitals should also cooperate in this regard. It should just be CT (covid testing) as the first thing before being screened for other conditions. This could help reduce exposure of health workers and by extension their families, to COVID. This is imperative! Every health facility should have a testing machine to help discount COVID first, if this has not already become routine yet in all health facilities

40. I was at Leopards hill cemetery yesterday and I saw hundreds of people attending funerals.There was very little distancing being observed I am afraid.

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41. @Tarino I’m telling you no porkies. You can check the infection rate of health workers in hot spots around the world on the Johns-Hopkins-University site. My principle has always been to know the facts before I post on this platform.

    If I sounded insensitive or sarcastic towards health workers in my initial post, that was not intentional. I have great respect for their profession and we all owe them our gratitude for saving so many lives and their ability to manage this enormous challenge.

42. Some serious questions needs to be asked about the quality of the personal protective equipment being used at this institution and training of staff in the management of covid 19 . It must also highlighted that Chilufya was asked about about ventilators and he intentionally skipped the question for obvious reasons. The economy is in the intensive care because of gross mismanagement and industrial scale stealing of tax payers cash which has ended up on new buildings plots surrounding statehouse

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43. Is KZ in self isolation?

44. Akosomola bad mu guys , currently looking around for a mini ventilator

45. How can those of us who were retired in PF interest help Bwana Tribal Minister? You retired us young and without just cause. The only reason we see was your hatred for particular surnames. How can we help?

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