Paediatrics patients at Nansenga Government Rural health Centre in Chief Muwezwa’s Chiefdom in Itezhi Tezhi district are sometimes subjected to sleeping on mattresses on the floor and share the few available mattresses in the admission wards.
And health workers at the rural health centre which is situated 110 kilometres from Itezhi Tezhi town have described the condition as “dangerous and unsanitary”.
This came to light when Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Mr. Greyford Monde visited the rural health centre which was opened by Member of Central Committee for Southern Province ( MCC) Mungoni Liso in 1980 during the Kenneth Kaunda administration.
A tour of the three decade old tiny rural health centre which needs a facelift and expansion revealed the bad conditions paediatrics patients and other patients are subjected to such as having to sleep on mattresses on the floor.
Health officials at the centre said the rural health centre has small wards meant for less than five patients but too many patients are being admitted.
“In addition to sleeping on the floor on mattresses, patients are sharing mattresses because they are not enough” said one of the Environmental health officers stationed at the institution.
The officers also said the rural health centre which lacks a clinician and midwife receives more patients than it was built for.
And Mr Monde who is also Member of Parliament for Itezhi tezhi, and was touched by the condition at the rural health centre, said it was unsanitary and dangerous for patients to sleep on the floor.
He said government will soon employ health workers and that he will ensure that important personnel such as clinician and midwife are deployed to the health centre.
And Mr. Monde has donated 10 mattresses to the rural health centre in order to alleviate the problems that patients are facing at the rural health centre.
“This situation is appling and immediately I have donated at least 10 mattresses to the health centre. This is just to sort out this urgent problem before government can come in for other capital projects at the institution “he said.
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This is sad. Government busy nama bye elections. Ndiye kupusa
And Sata’s wife is Pediatric doctor.
Iwe what was the MMD governement doing for all the 20 years it was in power?And what has the UPND done for these people since they claim that this area is in their strong hold?Stop blaming everything on the PF government.Do you remember that the ministry of finance has allocated funds to the ministry of health for building more clinics,employing more medical personnel and supplying medicine?I am sure this area will benefit.Please be reasonable before being critical!!!
Its unbelievable that 33yrs the health centre has not undergone any expansion despite the population growth.
There have been three previous administrations after KK, each with an MP for the area.
What did the MPs do to improve the state of affairs? The answer is absolutely NOTHING!!
Zambians are just good at complaining but do nothing to ensure that things get better.
We need to take our govt to task and persist on our demands for services or we show them the door at the next election…. No excerptions!!
It’s the only way to move the country forward
Blame the government not MPs. The duty of MPs is to make laws and not to develop areas. It is the duty of the government to develop all areas irrespective of who holds sway in any region. But as always things are upside down in Zambia where the citizenry is made to believe that development can only come to an area if an MP defects to the ruling party. This is utter nonsense.
Now look at this real need for the Zambian suffering people. Yet Sata spends his already diminishing time and energy pointing accusing fingers on opposition leaders instead of concentrating on development. Zambian people are suffering, yet Sata has the audacity to spend the country’s limited resources extravagantly by creating a huge cabinet inclusive of this Deputy minister who are doing nothing. After Monde saw what he saw, what action did he take to mitigate the problem? PF Government is just there to mock the suffering people of Zambia. Useless government.
Let Monde buy matresses today. He is in Govt and he said there is money for development if you are in govt.
I thought he has already bought the 10 mattresses as the immediate help before government can come in.
So SATA is right to paoch these MPS FROM OPPOSITION, THEY WORK MUCH HARDER THAN those in ruling party. The young man was just sworn in but now he is already workng, donating 10 matreses @us$1000 each, the expense includes full kit and adoption of the ward. Keep it up monde and steal more UPND Mps WHO WANT TO BE IN THE BOAT TO come on board
iwe, you are so dull. read again or should someone point it to you….MONDE IS ITEZHI TEZHI MP, WHY DID HE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NOW TO DONATE, CANT YOU SEE HE IS ASKING FOR A SYMPATHY VOTE NOW….gullibles like you have fallen for the trap. The boy is just marketing himself incase of a bye election.
Zambians are the most gullible people on earth. Is it because of abject poverty? The boy is merely campaigning. There is no doubt that Zambia is a nation of clowns.
IWE chi monde, who are you fooling, You have been itezhi tezhi MP since 2011, you mean you didnt know that there are no bed spaces in that hospital? Show us the documentation that you highlighted these problems when you were in UPND and no solution was forthcoming. Now that you have joined PF you want to portray a picture that undp is not working. YOu should have donated those matresses wen you were in upnd…YOU ARE MARKETING YOURSELF MWAICE, INSONII!!!!
and thats when the useful ***** causes a by election..?nonsense..let him go and stand in Western province now..
Nostradamus,
Dr Kaseba is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist and not a paediatrician.
Even then, what relevance does her specialty have in this matter?