Solwezi district commissioner, Rosemary Kamalonga has expressed disappointment over the dirty and long grass at Solwezi General Hospital.
Ms Kamalonga expressed sadness that hospital surrounding looks like a place that has been abandoned.
The District Commissioner said this when she led some inmates from Solwezi correctional facility to slash and clean up the surroundings, yesterday.
“We will not wait for management but will clean”, she said.
Ms Kamalonga therefore, called on the community and all government institutions to keep their surroundings clean and desist from keeping long grass, saying they attract snakes and are a breeding place for mosquitoes.
“All government institutions, let them be cleaned up because this is another way of how mosquitoes are breeding.
“Even if we are giving out mosquito nets, do you think with tall grass we will be able to fight malaria?” she questioned.
Meanwhile, Solwezi General Hospital management has promised to keep the surrounding clean.
Solwezi General Hospital acting senior hospital administrator, Judith Sangambo said management will consider making the place very clean.
“Knowing that if we don’t keep our surroundings clean, this is a breeding place for mosquitoes and other diseases and if surroundings are not clean we will have a lot of infections in our hospital which will not be very good,” Ms Sangambo said.
She also commended the district commissioner for making time to visit the hospital.
“We will not wait for management but will clean”, she said.
And this is why the mediocrity carries on…she won’t touch management as they may be PF cadres.
She also knows management will tell her the central government doesn’t send money.
But Ba Lungu is always saying there’s development in the country.
Kamalongo or Kamalonga??? you hopeless reporters!!
This is not the first hospital to be cited as dirty, Lundazi hospital as well if not mistaken was cited by the PS for health, its like hospital management are not doing enough or what they can. Its so worrying
Yes there is development in infrastructures but the minds of people must change to accommodate the beauty of the hospitals, hospitals must be treated as public institutions and not houses of some dirty individuals.
If I was the authority I would suspend the leader in management or even replace him or she with some intelligent person, who can effectively supervise the work force cleaning is just cleaning it is not construction is making things hygienic for the public and patients .
PF are dirty…. Saw Chitalu walking in flood waters
@ Sichalwe, you cannot link the dirty environment to infrustacture development that we have all seen. We will not expect Lungu to be responsible even for our backyards. Every Govt.section has a management. As long as everyone expects one man to come and do what the local management must do then we are doomed.The local management must be held accountable. Look at the beautiful drainages being constructed in the greater city of Lusaka, but people throw all the rubbish there with impunity and when we are reffered to as monkeys we rise up in arms to complain and yet we behave exactly like monkeys throwing all the rubbish were we should not.
Iron Lady always focused. Hope one day you become PS. Love your passion for work
Leadership at the hospital lacks drive.
Tall grass is a seasonal thing. Municipalities in our day used to go around with mowers clearing out grass in public places. Now you are using the American slave owners’ method of using slave labor and prisoners to do your bidding so you can save up and not pay those you have employed to do that. Enough said. Ifyabupuba fye lyonse.
Poor management. You don’t need Central government to come and slash for you. Come to our school for PMS orientation.
Ms. Rose Kamalonga DC Solwezi knows very well that the Kaondes have a problem with cleaning their surroundings at this time of the year. Has she taken a tour of the settlements within a radius of 20km from Solwezi CBD. This time around places like Mutanda, Matebo, Shilenda, Mujimanzovu is worse all the pipo have shifted kumajima. Even the town is already over grown with grass. Ku Kasempa you can’t even walk along the paths, its grass allover.