Thursday, March 28, 2024

New Hospital in Chadiza should be named after Mwanawasa

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Late President Levy Mwanawasa

The Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) in Chadiza in Eastern Province has suggested that the District Hospital which is nearing completion be named after the late President Levy Mwanawasa.

Chadiza District MMD chairman Harrison Banda said this during the Tree planting exercise held at the hospital premises yesterday.

He said the late President promised the people of Chadiza a hospital when he visited the District a few years before his death. Mr Banda said true to the late president’s promise, construction of the hospital started in 2006.

He said it made sense to name the hospital after the person who initiated the construction of the first ever district hospital in Chadiza since independence.

Meanwhile, the Forestry Department in Eastern Province has urged people in the province to develop a lifestyle of planting trees.

Speaking during the Tree Planting exercise at the District Hospital site in Chadiza yesterday, Provincial Forestry Officer Agness Chinyama said tree planting c greatly reduce climate change in the country.

ZANIS reports that Mrs Chinyama said Climate Change has had an adverse effect on the country’s resources adding that it was responsible for natural calamities such as floods.

She said Government could save a lot of resources if incidences caused by Climate change were reduced in the country.

[pullquote]He said the late President promised the people of Chadiza a hospital when he visited the District a few years before his death. Mr Banda said true to the late president’s promise, construction of the hospital started in 2006.[/pullquote]

Mrs Chinyama who was happy that parents had taken a leading role in planting trees in Chadiza District said the practice should be inculcated in children for the environment to be preserved for posterity.

She expressed gratitude that Government departmental Heads took time to participate in the exercise.

Speaking at the same occasion, Chadiza District Medical Officer Godfrey Lingenda thanked the Forestry Department for choosing the Hospital Site to plant trees.

Dr. Lingenda pledged to continue planting more trees around the hospital premises saying plants played a vital role in the well being of people.

He said apart from purifying the air and protecting buildings, trees were also an essential component in the rain cycle.

And Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) District Chairman Harrison Banda who led a group of cadres in the exercise thanked everyone that played a part in planting trees.

A total of 300 trees were planted at the new District Hospital construction site.

ZANIS

16 COMMENTS

  1. Good job RB, you have stayed true to your promises that you would implement Mwanawasa’s programs and keep his legacy

  2. dont name public institution after mwanawasa. i think he has not earned that despite all the good things he had done. i think we can find something else political that you can name after him

  3. What another hospital? Koma MMD imagwira nchito maningi boyi! This is why I say ‘if it aint broke, dont mend it!’. They can name the hospital Difikoti and Bilikoni for all I care, the main thing is that a hospital has been opened.

  4. ‘He said the late President promised the people of Chadiza a hospital when he visited the District a few years before his death. Mr Banda said true to the late president’s promise, construction of the hospital started in 2006.’..not ba alabee flourishing on other people’s success..start your own thing

  5. #8.
    You have made my evening. However, I see no harm in naming it Mwanawasa. It will encourage our leaders to innovate and work hard for our people as they will want to be remembered once they are forever asleep.

  6. Anyone saying the 20 years of MMD has nothing good to show is a doomed narcissist. With MMD its a better Zambia for all through continuity. Losers lose and lose while MMD and Zambians win-and-they win in 2011.

  7. #2, I hope you realise that initiating a project may not be enough, there are also inconvinient phases called ‘implementing’ and sorry another one called ‘completing’. I hope you do not delude yourself to think Levy did the last 2 phases while dead. Naming the hospital Mwanawasa or Chadiza does not matter to me….its just a good MMD project PF can only envy.

  8. Can some one explain what services this hospital is expected to offer to the district? It could end to be only a building without all necessary service related systems. Look at the UTH, it lacks all critical facilities a hospital of its calibre should have functionally. A name alone is not enough.

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