The Lions club of Mazabuka has embarked on a fundraising venture to raise funds for the construction of a roof for a passage at Mazabuka hospital to ease problems faced by health workers and members of the public when taking dead bodies to the mortuary during the rainy season.
Speaking to ZANIS in Mazabuka yesterday, club president Gurdson Shamilimo said his organisation projects to realise K 2.5 million through dog vaccinations at a reduced price of K 5,000 per vaccination.
Mr Shamilimo said the lions club is concerned about the problem because dead bodies that need to be kept in the mortuary have to remain in the wards until it stops raining.
He urged the community in Nakambala, Kabobola and Chibuyu townships, where the vaccinations will be conducted today, to take advantage of the reduced vaccination fees to treat their dogs and help the hospital administration find a solution to the problem.
Mr Shamilimo said his organisation decided to conduct the vaccinations in the three townships because of the high population of dogs there.
He said currently the lions club has sourced 139 iron sheets from a named business house but stated that cemment and poles are urgently required if the project is to take off.
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