The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has embarked on a KR15 million infrastructure renovation and rehabilitation exercise of the hospital.
UTH Public Relations Manager Mwenya Mulenga said the exercise was meant to give the hospital a facelift and improve on its current image where most of the infrastructure has experienced high levels of dilapidation.
Mr. Mwenya explained that the E-block ward has already been upgraded to standard level adding that the contractor has since moved to the G-block before proceeding to the main pharmacy, the corridor at the main foyer and the emergency theatre.
He added that three elevators have since been replaced for the medicine, surgery and mortuary departments.
He said at a media briefing in Lusaka today that all the lifts are expected to be replaced by the end of the year.
Mr. Mwenya further disclosed that plans were underway to have an Asian cardiac surgeon to perform open heart surgery at the University teaching hospital.
He stated that the hospital’s mandate was to offer quality health care to the public and therefore, the surgeon will help in clearing a long list of open heart surgery cases that have been pending for some time at the hospital.
“You may be interested to know that over 400 people in Zambia are currently living with heart diseases. Since January 2012, a total of 60 patients were sent by government for treatment abroad,” Mr. Mwenya said
He has meanwhile disclosed that the hospital has managed to procure an oxygen plant which will be fully installed before the end of June this year.
And Mr. Mwenya said UTH has experienced an increase in the number of patients seen and admitted in the main wards from between 1,000 to 1,300 patients to about 1,500 patients every day.
He said the hospital has a capacity of 1,613 beds in 51 wards adding that 80 per cent of these beds are occupied.
He attributed the increase in the number of patients to population increase and the rise in the disease burden which has a sounding impact on the provision of services.
Mr. Mwenya therefore stressed the need for clinics to be more proactive and only refer complicated and difficult cases to UTH.
He stated that the health referral system has become ineffective as most clinics in the country have relaxed by referring cases which can even be handled at the clinic level to the hospital.
ZANIS
Yes,yes,more work and more money in the pocket,way to go big Bosses.
Work to retain Zambian trained physicians as well.
Where is Mbangweta mwebantu?
What about Nine Chale?
News about improving the UTH infrastructure is exciting. The people want to see the GRZ responding to their cries for better services.
THE BEST THING WOULD HAVE BEEN TO BUILD A NEW HOSPITAL SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN UTH, TRANSFER THE PATIENTS IN THE NEW HOSPITAL AND START UTH REHAB. UTH LIKE UNZA IS OVERLOADED. NO MATTER THE TINKERING THINGS WONT WORK.
My dear friend stop partaking that cheap high strength cider its for the homeless chaps…
Wow give it a boob job as well, pa bwato i cant even count how many developmental articles I have read this week. Big up to PF
PF is working for sure
Money might be allocated but follow up and see the developments.May be the money might end in the pocket of the contractors cousin,who is the Minister’s cousin.
efyo cali naba MMD pakuya too many projects to fool d masses but nothing happened
Everywhere I look there is development, this PF government is not joking. We salute you…
Within 90 Days.
No space for baby politicians to point fingers. give yourselves 2 mores you will be embalassed by the level of developement to be put in place across the country. viva HEMCS, viva KK
Good news. Forget #Mbangweta mwebantu. She has overstayed and UTH under her has been a disaster.
Pauline was never a director ,the people who ran down UTH are Bembas ,Late Dr Katema who employed every thief from his village in accounts departments,Mwaba and now its Kasonka.These caps have no clue on management but they find themselves in the Executive Directors seat doing the best the know,stealing.UTH will never improve as long as Kolwestans run it ,foreget.
Ba Kolwe do not just yap yap here, report those people you are accusing of stealing! Do not just bwatata iwe without any proof!
i hope people are not already making plans on how this money will be shared. God sees everything done in the dark and you will be answerable one day.
what has tribe got to do with development, in Zambia tribe is not a requirement for any public position , an ecception is one political party and thats all.one day some of you will commit suicide with the hate of other tribes.
There is something unique and refreshing about this report. We are hearing about WHAT HAS BEEN DONE and IS CURRENTLY BEING DONE side by side with has been PLANNED TO BE DONE. We are always hearing about PLANS that never get fulfilled. This, to me, is refreshing because we can run over and check against what has been said and have optimism about the future of this institution. Thank you Mulenga and your UTH team.
YO HATE 4 BEMBAS WILL KILL U FOOL!I AM BEMBA AND 100% PROUND. FOR YOUR OWN INFORMATION I SLEEP FOR ONLY 4 HOURS SO AS TO CONTINUE LIVING LIKE A KING.MY CHILDREN ARE BORN 2 BE GREAT AND ARE TAUGHT JUST THAT. NO ONE WILL STAND IN THEIR WAY. BRAVO GOVT!
What happened to Pauline Mbangweta?
Abash tribalism, viva one zambia one nation
I was born in this hospital and my dream is to one day make it the flagship of medical excellence in the country and the region. This institution and the university of Zambia are pillars of development in the country and funding should be enshrined in the constitution. Imagine, the budget of Oxford university (UK) or Yale University in the US is more than the budget of the entire country (Zambia). Infrastructure development is the way forward for development and job creation.
Point of Correction LT. Its not MR. MWENYA. Its MR. MULENGA. Thank you
Kasonka is a failure in managing UTH. For those who have been following UTH happenings, recall the Oxygen failure-gate scandal, the Water failure-gate scandal and the Mortuary Body swap-gate scandal to which he responded “dead bodies in the mortuary were not a responsibility of UTH”. Ndeloleshafye……..
So now face lifting is development? This is the problem with Zambians. We can’t distinguish real development from regular maintenance. What a disappointment!
In your view, we just have to build and not maintain what we have built?
# 15 you truly sound to be ba Kolwe in the jungle for sure. Kolwe (Monkey) might even be more reasonable than …………Lets not promote tribalism gentlemen, it has no place in Zambia. Promote peace & Love. Stop pointing out tribes but individuals for God’s sake, got it?
Ba # 15 you truly sound like ba Kolwe (a Monkey) for sure. A monkey might even be more reasonable than …………* Stop pointing out tribes but individuals for God’s sake. Tribalism doesn’t pay but brings about calamities in any country, history can prove that. Promote love and peace and be real. Give credit where it belongs and don’t just yup like a nincompoop.