Villagers from Chief Chikanta's area in Kalomo who transport sick people using ox-drawn scotch carts to Macha hospital will no longer be allowed to transit through chief Macha's area. This is due to the ban in the movement of cattle by the veterinary department to the outbreak of the Contagious Bovine Pleural Pneumonia, CBPP. Chief Macha told his subjects to ensure that no cattle from Kalomo district is allowed to pass through the area. He said those transporting sick people must use other alternative means such as bicycles to avoid the spread of CBPP to his chiefdom. The chief gave the directive during a meeting addressed by acting Choma district commissioner Mungoni Simulilika at his palace. This was after the villagers wanted to know whether people using ox-drawn scotch carts to ferry the sick to hospital should be exempted from the ban. Choma district livestock officer Jacob Bothma told the villagers not to allow any animals from another district as doing so would expose their cattle to the deadly CBPP which has so far killed a number of cattle especially in Kazungula district. ZANIS
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Chief Macha has this time around got his priorities wrong! It is a sad development that seems to put priority on serving animals ahead of humans. Knowing so well how expensive for an average family to get money, hiring a vehicle for the purposes of rushing their ailing loved ones to hospital will surely have adverse effects on their meagre resources. Chief Macha should be more considerate to the plight of his neighbours who do not have the same privilege of a big hospital as his kingdom. It is simply untimely to issue this declaration seeing sickness is on the rise everywhere and people will need access to medical care at especially well-established institutions such as Macha General Hospital.
Has he bought an ambulence to ferry his people?
Ba Mwamwi…. you won’t be a chief without any subordinates! Cows can be replaced and not human life!
Tonga Bull, you seem not to know what you are talking about. You can not buy life for both cattle and human beings. If cows are slaughtered how will the sicky be ferried to the hospital? That means the sicky will die in their homes and enventully the Chief will be by himself. Sideline some other methods and replace them with vibrate one rather than none.
Human Life V/S Animal life! Very myopic chief