Health Minister Kapembwa Simbao says infrastructure development is key in improving access to health services.
Mr. SIMBAO said government has thus put in place several interventions to mitigate the challenges impacting negatively on maternal and child health, including building of health centers and providing quality health workers.
He said infrastructure development was also a means to achieving the Vision 2030 and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Mr. Simbao said this in a speech read for him by Petauke District Commissioner Jacob Mwanza during the handing over of SASU Rural Health Center and Maternity wing to government by World Vision Zambia.
He said despite various interventions that government had put in place, the need for accessible quality health care services was still high in the country.
Mr. Simbao pointed out that community members especially women and children faced numerous challenges including long distances to the nearest health centers, inadequate health supplies and lack of qualified health personnel in most rural health centers.
He said government was happy that World Vision with their health programmes have partnered with government to address the challenges that have continued to create a significant constraint to social and economic development.
And World Vision Zambia National Director, Micheal Vietenhans has said that a total of 6000 people including 850 under five children are expected to benefit from the clinic.
Mr. Vietenhans was speaking in a speech read on his behalf by World Vision Operations Director James Mutupa Mateyo.
Mr. Vietenhans said World Vision as a child focused organization viewed the well-being of children in a holistic manner to ensure that programmes implemented had a meaningful impact on the children’s lives and that of their families.
He said World Vision would therefore remain committed to making health services accessible through infrastructure development, provision of health equipment and supplies for the benefit of the vulnerable communities who were unable to access health services.
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In Zambia, always too little too late.
LT you mean you dont source your own news but rely on Times of Zambia and ZANIS. Tell us if you are a subsidiary for Times of Zambia so that we rubbish you as you deserve.
LA FARGE CEMENT BUSINESS IS BOOMING BCOS OF GOVT BUILDING SCHOOLS AND CLINICS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AS JOE KALUSA SAYS WHILE MMD IS DEVELOPING THE NATION PF AND UPND ARE BUSY PULLING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS WITH NO AGENGA CHIMBWI NO PLAN
#3: Yes MMD is building schools to create more street kids with grade twelve certificates, using borrowed money. Your country Zambia will be back to the 7bn US$ levels of debt because of the heavy duty borrowing. We know mulya bonse, hence your support for the sitting government. A Nigerian adage says: “The poor are not sleeping at night because of hunger; and the rich are not sleeping because the poor are awake”; It becomes a vicious circle bwana!! Careful with your policies, you will also be affected.
@ 4 Nice adage. Mr Minister, improvement in healthcare provision is welcome. What would also help the health and well being of Zambians, is if Deputy Minister’s were not packing heat. hehehe.
GUYZ, TEMA SPEECHES FYE IYO. SIMBAO, WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID MANY POLITICIANS HAVE SAID IT AND LITTLE IF ANYTHING HAS BEEN DONE. JUST DO IT, DON’T WASTE YOUR BREATH AND PEOPLES’ TIME TO LISTEN TO WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID.
#3 YOU ARE VERY IGNORANT. LA FARGE MAINLY MADE MONEY FROM HUGE CONSTRUCTION WORK IN S AFRICA DURING AND EVEN AFTER THE WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS. IT ALSO GETS BUSINESS FROM LOCAL BUT NUMEROUS INDIVIDUAL AND COMPANIES INITIATIVE HOUSE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. LA FARGE IS ALSO EARNING HUGE REVENUE FROM DRC WHERE HUGE CONSTRUCTION/RECONSTRUCTION OF NEW/OLD TOWNS, ROADS, RAIL LINES, NEW AIRPORTS, HUGE COMMERCIAL FARMS, ETC…
from #7…AND OTHER NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES- MALAWI, ZIMBABWE ETC ARE IMPORTING FROM ZAMBIA. DON’T BE CHEATED. IF YOU DON’T LIVE IN ZAMBIA YOU HAVE MUCH OPPORTUNITY TO USE A COMPUTER AND RESEARCH MORE. ESTATE DEVELOPERS AND INDIVIDUALS IN ZAMBIA BUY MORE FROM LA FARGE THAN THE GOVERNMENT.
#3 IF YOU SEE WHAT IS GOING ON (IN PICTURES) IN TERMS OF CONSTRUCTION IN THE DRC INSPITE OF THE WAR, WHILE YOUR PRESIDENT IS ON THE MOVE, YOU WILL BE SCARED. THERE ARE SKY-SCRAPERS YOU HAVE NEVER IMAGINED IN YOUR LIFE TO BE IN CONGO FOR THAT MATTER. THE CONGOLESE LEADERS ARE REALLY DOING SOMETHING FOR THEIR COUNTRY. MIND YOU DRC IS THE NEXT SOUTH AFRICA IN LESS THAN 15 YEARS TIME.
#4. I AM ALSO IMPRESSED WITH YOUR ADAGE. KEEP IT UP.