Government has not yet started disbursing normal funding to health facilities in Luapula province despite cooperating partners resuming funding to the ministry of health resulting in the continued reduced patient meals in hospitals.
Luapula Provincial Health Officer, Dr Elicho Bwalya told ZANIS in an interview today that disbursement of funds to health facilities in the province has not yet normalised despite government’s pronouncement that cooperating partners had resumed funding to the ministry of health.
He said as a result, patients in hospitals are still on reduced meals adding that even the suspension of outreach health programmes was still in force.
Dr Bwalya said all health facilities in the province are still operating under strict budgets in the face of reduced funding effected after donors withdrew financial assistance to the ministry of health.
He said movement of vehicles is still restricted to only important activities as another measure to cope with reduced funding.
Dr Bwalya however, said that normal funding is expected to start getting to the health facilities after things are put in order at the ministry.
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come on guys do something abantu balafwa
Ala but there is money for MP gratuities…….this is unacceptable. Give patients food . Dont you know that food is medicine????
Luapula province, especially after Nchelenge, is worse now than it was during colonial days. I was ashamed and angry when I went there. Katele Kalumba is just busy positioning himself for higher office. It is really a shame. I am not surprised by the above report.
They’ll do something when the elections are close. They don’t see any sense in providing food for the sick when there are no elections. This is MMD government, have you forgotten. Rotten government indeed!!
Nishani abalwele taba lisha, so it ok.