Deputy Minister of Health Solomon Musonda has urged the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) management to periodically carry out maintenance works in order to enhance the lifespan of the infrastructure at the institution.
And Dr. Musonda has expressed happiness at the ongoing renovations at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka.
Speaking when he toured the institution today, Dr. Musonda said, through its cooperating partners, invested heavily in human resource, equipment and infrastructure development at the largest health institution in the country.
He said government is however still addressing the human resource shortage in the country by recruiting medical personnel and upgrading nursing schools.
Dr. Musonda was happy with the resilience exhibited by UTH workers to continue operating and serving patients under difficult conditions.
Government has procured medical equipment such as the CT Scan MRI machine, tele-medicine virtual centre and other hi-tech equipment to match with the demands of the modern era in addressing the challenges in the health sector.
He said Zambia is slowly attaining the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators on quality health.
He implored contractors rehabilitating and constructing some infrastructure at the UTH to speed up the works because government is in a hurry to provide quality health services to the public.
And UTH Managing Director Peter Mwaba disclosed that his institution is working on a strategy to link all provincial and district health centres across the nation.
Dr. Mwaba said UTH is repositioning itself to carter for all the demand of the people seeking health care services in the country thereby speeding the attainment of the 2015 MDG attainment on quality health.
He assured government that the funds pumped into the institution were being utilized for the intended purposes.
The Institution has also acquired a US$ 6 million loan for purchasing hi-tech equipment.
The Deputy Minister toured the radiology unit, Blocks ‘C’ and ‘D’, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit (MRI) of the cancer disease hospital, and the labour and theater departments.
Meanwhile, the Salvation Army has donated assorted foodstuffs to UTH worth K10 million to the Children and Maternity Wards ahead of Christmas festival celebrations.
Salvation Army Zambia Territorial Commandant, Colonel John Wainwright said the church is involved in easing the sufferings of the people and reiterated the church’s social responsibility to supplementing government efforts in the health sector.
Col. Wainwright said there is need for the church to help those that are economically disadvantaged, fight for peace and justice by bringing hope to the hopeless through preaching God’s love.
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Very depressing picture. I thought RB said the Zambian economy is growing and the national reserves have gone up. Now what is this nonsense, you are better of dying under a tree than going to UTH.
Mr.Deputy minister the hospital must have money to maintain the facilities all the money has gone to South Africa hospital where you and your friends go
This story make interesting reading for me. Dr Slomon Musonda was my classmate from 1st year until we graduated together at Ridgeway campus after 7 years! Dr Mwaba ,the UTH managing Director ,was our lecturer and Consultant in Internal medicine and we were his students. Now Solomon can visit UTH as a D/minister and Dr Mwaba has to explain to him what he is doing. Thats life! Very interesting indeed. All the best to both of them!
At first I thought it was a vandalised classroom – and then I read it was a ward. Mr. Musonda is quite right to call for maintenance and there has always been enough funds for the health sector, so what is the actual problem?
Corruption is the proplem. the kapokwe’s of this world have contributed to uth’s demise
The ward looks like it survived a sunami. Lets maintain our national assets please. MAINTENANCE!
“Carry out periodic maintenance works”. Anyone who has matriculated knows that. Why the UTH doesn’t do the maintenance is because government doesn’t give them money. So such advice, if I may call it that because it is too cliched, should be followed up with funding. Otherwise any doctor at UTH knows the hospital needs this periodic maintenance.
Well-done UTH in the area of telemedicine. Zambia can learn a lot from Kenya who have already done vast research in teleradiology, tele-heath and mobile health.
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Interesting reading indeed but more interesting is the fact that the institution is being run by a Medic without much experience as a Business Manager so he may not have the necessary business acumen to run the intitution effectively and make it self reliant or at least partially.This is the same problem with other major institutions like ZESCO & ZAMTEL where Electrical & Telecomms Engineers are in charge,their knowledge is more technical than business.
UTH is the biggest health institution in Zambia & is capable of being self reliant and even cater for smaller neighbouring countries at a fee if Managed properly but because of the notion that it’s a govt institution,the Managers have to wait for grants from govt and assistance from other co operating partners.
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