The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Public Relations Manager, Pauline Mbangweta has urged the public to ensure that patients are taken to their local health centers as the highest referral hospital is only attending to emergency cases.
The situation is as a result of the countrywide strike by Resident doctors who are demanding for improved condition service.
Ms Mbangweta also maintained that UTH is not affected by the on-going countrywide strike by Resident Doctors.
Speaking in an interview today Mrs Mbangweta said operations at the hospital are normal as student doctors, senior doctors and their foreign counterparts are currently attending to patients.
However, a check by QFM at the UTH this morning, found the filter clinic closed and a few doctors attending to patients at the admissions ward.
Resident Doctors went on a country wide strike on Monday demanding for good conditions of service.
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Only the common man will be affected, the politicians wont feel the impact once sick can be flown to SA and return as cargos. eg…….
junior doctors the strike will yield no results you already get more than enough dont be greedy. you get nine million while a nurse gets two million. if you not happy pliz resign and go were you think you get enough. your strike isnt effective bcos your colleagues are working and they are the majority
” highest referral hospital is only attending to emergency cases”
All patients need emergency treatment Mbangweta.If am not feeling ok i should be attended to with emergency.
The tourist said this is a small issue that will be adddressed by the minister b4 be left for Abuja
Meanwhile Mrs Pauline Mbangweta says the patients condition is ‘stable’.
Wanzelu spot on. Guess the tourist meant he would bring all these witch persons we see in the Nigerian Movies. Its time this Vasco Ba Banda acted well for the benefit of ordinary zambians who cant manage go for Further treatment only to come in the cargo plane as Yaba Put it.
The strike by the doctors should be taken seriously.Indeed it sucks for someone to spend seven years in medical school in hope of a better future to be paid peanuts.
#6 upnd is 9million kwacha peanuts thats hell lots of money by my standards. you wud come back to zed if you were offered that amount bcos it will sought out your problems instead of languishing in diaspora. 9mili you can even start building a house or get a very good loan from any bank in zambia
BBC News says ” Nigerian Independence celebrations marred by blasts” Atleast 7 people have been killed in explosions in Nigerias capital Abuja.
Is our president and the business men who hired a jet safe? I wonder if their business trip will be successful???? Poor judgement….why going during indepence celebrations and not any other day? OR, are these MMD sponsored business men with a view of trying to justify RBs un productive trips?
HERB arrived safely yesterday. had lunch nakasabi kakocha with bondwe plot 1 lelo. ephraim shakafuswa young brother to famous jonas wanted by police and is on the run if you guys in diaspora see him pliz report he is carrying a reward on his head
So in one breadth, Ms Mbangweta insists that the strike has not affected the institution while in another, she asks people not to go to UTH because they are only attending to emergency cases. Which is which?
# 10 it is annoying that every one in Zambia has become political, Mbagweta is a proffessional and so we dont expect such contradicting statements from her. What is she afraid of? to be fired? why cant she just state facts and help us to understand the situation at the hosipital? Hypocrite !!!
I wish some one sensible out there can see her un professionalism and fire her!!
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Someone said Lusaka had few more RB built hospitals. Mbangweta, an official at UTH even when the boards were there says people should go to their local Health centers. I qoute “The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Public Relations Manager, Pauline Mbangweta has urged the public to ensure that patients are taken to their local health centers”. No mention of other hospitals or new hospitals. Please cadres. Which hospitals were you referring to? A clinic or health center with 3 nurses on duty you call them hospitals? Give me a break. Yes, there are private ones, but RB built? A stretch at its best. How many can afford to go to those private clinics again? Probably even the nurses working there cannot afford to be sick in those same private hospitals. Check your sources, Cadres.
Pauline Mbangweta has urged the public to ensure that patients are taken to their local health centers as the highest referral hospital is only attending to emergency cases…. Ms Mbangweta also maintained that UTH is not affected by the on-going countrywide strike by Resident Doctors.
WHAT A CONTRADICTION!!! MBANGWETA THINKS SHE IS TALKING TO KINDERGARTEN KIDS OR WHAT? WHY IS EVERY JIM AND JACK TAKING ZAMBIANS FOR FOOLS NOW??
Sometimes it is wiser to keep ones’ “trap” shut, rather than contract “verbal dias”!!!
zambia has a few thousand docs, malawi a few hundred, population about the same, lifespan the same.
I say there is no difference that the docs make, if you have the virus youll die 2 weeks earlier than you would have had the docs been working but you still gonna die.
Those of you complaining bout 9 million, go work 36 hour shifts every fourth day for a month then come back and talk to me if you think you shud be paid 9 million, you civilians who knock off at “sixteenhours” , ataaa…
This situation is very disturbing , especially after all the fanfare during the commissioning of the new hospitals.
…..This top heavy government of ours , is showing serious symptoms of dysfunction.