Government is concerned with the rate at which the public health sector is losing professionals to the private sector after spending huge sums of money training them.
Health Deputy Minister, Chitalu Chilufya says government cannot continue spending money on training staff only to loss them to the private sector.
Dr Chilufya has directed all medical superintends to ensure all staff trained at government expense are bonded.
He said this when he addressed public health workers at Kasama General Hospital.
Meanwhile, Tourism and Arts Minister Jean Kapata says her Ministry is working closely with the Ministry of Health to ensure that some of the 6 hundred and 50 health posts being constructed are built near tourist sites.
Ms Kapata has told ZNBC News in an interview that it is gratifying that Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya has directed health authorities in IKELENGE, North Western Province, to construct one health post at the source of the Zambezi River.
She says tourists and workers who man tourist sites encounter difficulties in accessing health facilities.
Imwe ba MoH munanitana Scholarship !!!! I am just ‘pushing’ myself. Its exiomatic of relatives getting scholarships even those without Intellectual Stamina.
Bad…….ba Africa chabbe pali kanthu.
Please do PF mps communicate help this f00l jean kapata that the 650 health post were fake PF dounchi ukubeba they have been suspended
You CAN ONLY BOND THEM if you pay for their full education!!! So stop yapping now that you have MORE OF OUR MONEY IN YOUR POCKET!!
Was the minister bonded when he received his trainig? Give people space to exercise their choice of belonging. Dont students pay heavily in govt training institutions? We pay at least 2.5m/ term at Lvgstn nursing sch. The answer is to just give gud working conditions, Full stop. Even after bonding, people can still leave.
@ Membe Post: the list of failed projects under PF is long. 650 health posts, constitution within 90 days, mealie meal @k25, fuel @k5, completion of schools, Link 8000 road pipe dream, king lewanika university, mongu stadium etc
Bonding only works if the workplace is attractive. The competitors are very willing to liquidate your bond-expense… sorry bwana Minister, you have to be more creative than that.
How do you bond people you have not employed?? There’s so many Graduates from colleges and universities that have remained unemployed and you blame them for joining the private sector if an opportunity arises?? Very funny
The big problem in my view is that qualified doctors and nurses go into admnistration instead of practicing. For example all the provinces have doctors who are working as provincial medical officers instead practicing in the hospitals,so are nurses who are in admin,if you let people who have gained n administration and free these doors to do what they have been reined fr will partly solving is shortage. The truth be told,most f the people now days aw paying or them selves at varsity,so who will be bonded?
Bonding for govt workers is only 2 years and there after one is free to work where ever he/she feels would be taken care of. The problem we have in zed is people want others to do things them the law makers have failed to do. Take a walk to ndeke house(headquarters) for ministry of health the offices are occupied by highly trained doctors at the expense of tax payers money instead of helping people in different hospitals. The govt paid tuition and rented accommodation for them to acquire their masters in different fields but are all heaped up in one place doing administrative work. Start with ndeke house bwana minister where your office is located
good guy this chitalu chilufya.very hardworking and intelligent as well and so humble. all the best my friend. As a medical doctor he was always there for us and every one at short notice.
This is low thinking. Are patients attended to in the private sector not Zambians? They should worry if they leave the country. But even then, they are the same staff who attend to them at Milpark, Morning Side etc. They worry about brain drain, but for them to fire nurses is not brain drain….
“Bonding” ni chani? Atase
Here you have a minister who seems ignorant that all government trained professionals are bonded but as @ Pillow Case it is only for two years! He should have instead advocated for longer bonding periods as two years only allows for the professionals to gain post training experience for their cv’s. However not all would leave for other opportunities if government provided a conducive working environment (facilities) to bring out their professional best!
Jean Kapuba you don’t even know that the so called health post was scrapped and that it just another stupid PF scam? You chaps do ever co-ordinate your activities? And are so disjointed and yet the so called Secretary to the Cabinet Msiska claims that the Pamafi administration has held more cabinet meetings than all previous administration! Thats crap! You meet to share contracts illegally, time for reckoning is fast drawing near bwana. There will be no Ukwa to defend you chaps, he’s too tired and emaciated.
IS MILPARK HOSPITAL WHERE YOU GO YOURSELVES NOT IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR ?
Look at who is speaking? Wasn’t this the guy working with ZPCT II recently?
After 50 years of “independence” and “achievements” new solution is a “bondage”??? Well said comrade minister! This is the right way towards emancipation and freedom!!!
Can we have “brain drain” of useless politicians?
GRZ trained me as MD, I was never bonded. My record is there for all to see in Botswana.
Remunerate them adquately and they will stay in goverment hospitals.
In any case its not brain drain if they remain in the country because they still service the same Zambian community.
The depute minister is now showing some dictatorial tendencies!!