A parliamentarian has appealed to the Ministry of Health to open up a newly built ultra modern health facility in Dundumwezi Constituency in Southern Province to help lessen difficulties local people are experiencing in accessing medical services.
Dundumwezi Member of Parliament (MP) Edgar Sing’ombe told ZANIS in Choma that
Government spent colossal sums of money on the construction of Chilala health
centre but the facility is not fully operational despite all the equipment being in
place.
The MP said there has been no explanation from the Ministry of Health on why it
cannot open the health centre because as far as he was concerned all the facilities
are already in place.
He said people could not continue travelling to Macha Mission Hospital in Choma
district to seek medical attention when a health facility that could serve them
better was being alllowed to turn into a white elephant.
The situation, Mr Sing’ombe said is an inconvenience to the people, mostly the sick,
who are forced to cover long distances to Macha hospital.
Thanking government for constructing Chilala health centre, Mr Sing’ombe said the
onus was now on the ministry of health to realise that it has an obligation to meet
because government has done its part.
