Vice President George Kunda has directed the Ministry of Health to ensure the stalled project on the expansion of Kalomo district hospital is completed this year.
The Vice President said Government has already spent K1.2 billion on the project which commenced in 2005 but had not been completed to date.
ZANIS reports that Vice President Kunda said the Ministry of Health must quickly mobilise the K800 million needed to complete the project which includes among other facilities a new maternity wing and a theatre.
He was speaking when he toured the hospital expansion works in the company of Provincial Minister Elijah Muchima and Kalomo central UPND Member of Parliament Request Muntanga.
The Vice President assured medical personnel at the hospital that Government would do everything possible to see to it that the project is concluded this year.
He said he had seen for himself the congestion in the hospital wards because of limited space while lack of facilities such as the theatre had affected the institution’s operations.
Speaking during the same tour, district medical officer Dr Cephas Sialubanje said the institution was facing the challenge of inadequate space and lack of a theatre.
Dr. Sialubanje said this had forced the institution to refer patients to distant health facilities outside the district.
He told the Vice President that as a result of the long distances, some referral patients ended up dying on the way.
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