Friday, March 29, 2024

Newly constructed Kapiri Mposhi Hospital ready for commissioning

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The K11 billion worth state of the art Kapiri Mposhi district hospital has been completed and handed over to Government.

Acting District Medical Officer Charles Mwinuna said the contractor, Power Flex, has finished construction works and has since handed over the hospital to the Government for commissioning.

Dr. Mwinuna said the newly built hospital comprises a maternity ward, outpatient department (OPD), theatre, administration and service blocks and ten staff houses.

State of the art equipment would be installed in the new hospital which would also act as a referral health institution in the district.

He said the hospital, which would be commissioned soon, would help alleviate challenges that the Ministry of Health had been facing in providing quality health care to the people.

Dr. Mwinuna said his office had already started planning to send critical health staff to operate from the hospital in readiness for its commissioning.

And Kapiri Mposhi District Commissioner Kunda Mwila has warned civil servants against being partisan as the country gets ready for general elections this year.

Mr. Kunda said as the country goes to the polls this year, Government workers should at all costs avoid being entangled in partisan politics because they were supposed to be non-partisan.

He issued the warning during a meeting with Ministry of Health (MoH) and hospital staff after touring the newly constructed Kapiri Mposhi district hospital yesterday.

Mr. Kunda said Government would sternly deal with Civil Servants who would assume a partisan position during and after the elections.

He observed that assuming a partisan position would affect the provision of public services to the people.

The DC also advised Civil Servants to be on the lookout for individuals and politicians who would scheme to use Government offices to cause confusion in order to discredit the State.

Mr. Kunda said Government is committed to improving working conditions for health workers in order for them to offer quality health care to the public.

He further said Civil Servants should jealously guard Government achievements because this would ease their service delivery to the people.

“Construction of the hospital in the district is testimony that the Government wants to improve service provision. So let us not be swayed by selfish individuals and politicians to rise against Government,” he said.

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20 COMMENTS

  1. Its a goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Those with eyes to see are able to witness the massive development in our mother land. Our Money, Our govt, our party, our President at work

  2. Mr President This should call for more hard work, we shall surely remember your team as one which tried its best to perform t our expectetions. It can never be 100% but you are close to. Good job. keep it up

  3. Great Job…One step at a time for mother zambia

    Hope RB is Grooming himself a young successor So he can Retire on a High Note.

  4. Cosmetic type of development!!!!!!!!!!!atase! we hve already made up our minds. we would understand why you support MMD if you are shalow minded. and again if you are corupt we can understand. if non of the the above you are dead, u jst dont knw!!!!!!!

  5. Good news! But for goodness sake ensure that these hospitals being built will have all the drugs required and most importantly maintain the standards do not let the building delapidate. BUT people do not be hoodwinked all these developments being completed now were strategically planned for completion in the election year. These projects should have been in place long ago, it’s taken this government almost 20 years to bring this kind of development.

  6. Good news indeed.But please make sure u finish projects and then anounce to the public,if u havent yet installed equipments then it shouldnt be ready for commissioning,anyway show the pipo that u are working failure to which we will kick u out!

  7. I’m no an MMD member but give due respect to the current government. They have done so much. Job well done Mr president

  8. Good job, but this hospital is located very far from the CBD, people will have to travel long distances…I guess its good for transporters who will surely cash in. By way is this new DC a former ZNBC employee.?

  9. PF koponyas do not want to acknowledge the development going on, the only problem they have is the electorate can see that RB is workingand delevering and no amount of lies and propaganda from Sata and the post will mask this fact

  10. #8 How many elections have we had under mmd? What’s so special about RB’s 2011 term that must have compelled FJT & LPM to put on hold their capital projects to target completion in 2011 for RB’s benefit?

    It’s senseless posts yours (Afroking) that give pipo like me reason to back RB. Your kind of thinking must not be allowed any where near corridors of power!

  11. Work that goes to improve the lives of people deserves commendation. Hope the people will look after this facility well.

    To the govt, we don’t want this to end up as another shell without equipment, meds, staff etc like we see with major health facilities in the country

    As for the state-of-the-art equipment, I hold my breathe, that remains to be seen

  12. RB has delivered alot of infrastructure projects during his 3yr tenure! Beneficiaries on the ground, many of them in peri-urban Zambia, are taking note and will choose pragmatic development over empty rhetoric! It’s weird how Mmembe never ever reports on these worthwhile achievements?

  13. Last time my cousin was admitted to Kapiri hospital with burns, there was no nurse to take care of his wounds. The family had to take it in turn to wash and change him. They had to use salt to clean the wounds. Let’s hope there are doctors and nurses to man this building.

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