The Civil Service Commission has announced it extended the period of data capturing by District and Provincial Health Offices by five days from 21st to 25th April 2022 to ensure that all applications received in the recruitment process of 11,276 health workers are captured.
The district and provincial health offices commenced the data of the application capturing on 13th April 2022 and were scheduled to conclude the process on 20th April, 2022 but could not do due to the huge numbers of applications received.
Statistics of applications received according to the Commission from various provincial and district data capturing sites indicate that a total of 137, 129 applications have been received with 48, 920 accounting for professional cadre positions which include persons living with disabilities.
Speaking at a media briefing, Commission Chairperson Peter Mumba said because of the five days data capturing extensions, all other activities that were scheduled to take place post data capturing have been adjusted accordingly.
And Mr Mumba who gave the distribution of applications received per province said in the spirit of enhancing fairness, transparency and preventing a conflict of interest, officers in the various human resource management sub-committees will be reshuffled during the screening and shortlisting of applicants.
Speaking at the same briefing, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Administration Dr George Magwende said the government is committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is transparent.
Applications received Per province are as follows:
TOTAL NO. OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED
CENTRAL 15,445
COPPERBELT 24,497
EASTERN 10,721
LUAPULA 9,538
LUSAKA 31,106
MUCHINGA 6,777
NORTHWESTERN 9,423
NORTHERN 7,215
SOUTHERN 13,269
WESTERN 9,138
GRAND TOTAL 137,129
Today the so called president wondered why coincil workers had not been paid. Now when this promise of Jobs was made, I said anyone can proclaim creating thousands of Jobs but it’s another issue paying those roles. So now you can have 11 000 Jobs by title but not get paid. You will eat your job titles haha
Mbuzi Meeeeeee, Appreciate Zambians being employed by the current government neglected by PF regime. The fight against corruption has began to recover massive assets acquired through PF corruption in the country. Recovered assets to benefit all Zambians. In the mean time, world rankings puts president HH 5th best president in Africa. Hope you will respect the world assessment.
It is drop in the ocean. Governments have been employing these numbers year in year only there have not been making media shows.
@kci, propagating lies.
Do not insult un employed teachers and health workers trained more than 10 years ago without jobs.
The recruitment exercise going forward is ok. In terms statistics 12 candidates are competing for one position which is fair and if the exercise can be continued every year until a significant number is reached.