Management at Livingstone General Hospital has said the number of live births at the institution had improved due to good maternal practices.
Maternal Health Administrator at the Institution, Sister Lishomwa Mutomwa told ZANIS in an interview that infant mortality rate had drastically reduced by almost half at the institution.
Sister Mutomwa said most of the infant deaths that were recorded at the institution are as a result of natural causes and not clinical errors.
She was speaking when Southern Province Permanent Secretary, Gladys Kristafor visited the General Hospital on Saturday to present gifts to three babies born on Christmas Day.
And Mrs. Kristafor advised mothers to socialise their Christmas babies into Christianity so that they grow up as responsible children.
However, Mrs. Kristafor said although the babies born on Christmas were special, they were not better than other children born on any other day.
She donated various items among them baby blankets, nappies and bathing tubs to the three babies, a girl and two boys.
Mothers of the babies are Jane Kalaba, whose baby boy was born at 08:00, Princess Mulwani, whose son was born at 02:30 hours and Beauty Kaunda, whose daughter was born at around 07:00 hours.
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statistics statistics statistics….. why are we zambians so averse to this vital component of health care? we need numbers please. this way we have the evidence base re: the magical numbers needed to treat and cost benefit and eventually formulation of benchmarks. i think this results from the poor emphasis on the numbers disciplines in our health institutions
No 1 i agree. i think statistics should be given to the public so we can digest the information properly, we can ask sensible questions and made appropriate conclusions. so give us statistics or say nothing
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