The University Teaching Hospital-UTH in Lusaka has continued to face a problem of congestion despite the city having first level hospitals and the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital.
The Hospital management is now being forced to create floor beds to accommodate more patients at the biggest health institution in the country.
Some patients have complained of uncomfortable sleeping arrangements.
They say that sometimes seven patients have to share one mattress.
But UTH Managing Director Dr. Lackson Kasonka has appealed to members of the public with less complicated cases to seek medical attention from first level hospitals and the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital.
He was speaking in an interview with ZNBC News in Lusaka yesterday.
And one of the midwives, Tumelo Kapatiso says health personnel are unable to give the best care to patients who need specialised treatment due to the overwhelming numbers.
Can we get a comment on this from Capitalist and MMD Bootfimofimo please?
This is the legacy RB has left.
When we were saying we didn`t need the containers or mobile hopsitals like the MMD thugs called them, we were called ba Kaponya. Even that Dr Ngoma ***** was trying to justify this waste of money mobile hospitals.
This hurts! But do these guys in MMD see anything wrong with this? No! They go to SA-Morningside Clinic.
MOST OF THE CASES AT UTH ARE REFERRAL ONES FROM FIRST LEVEL HOSPITALS. THERE IS NEED FOR OTHER CASES TO BE REFERRED TO LEVY MWANAWASA GENERAL HOSPITAL. JUST IMPROVE LEVY MWANAWASA TO HANDLE SOME CASES FROM FIRST LEVEL HOSPITALS.
UTH management needs to come up with a policy on what cases will be referred to UTH. In most cases the overwhelmed nurses and doctors refer cases they themselves can handle to UTH thereby creating the much talked about congestion.
@#5 Braggadocio. Ok but why go to UTH then when you can easily go to first level hospitals?
Why not say go to a mobile hospital? If people in first level hospitals are overwhelmed then there is something wrong. If one needs admission to hospital then there is nothing you can do. They have to be admitted.
We have been living a lie for a very long time. Just because one can afford to pay to get admitted to a private hospital doesn`t mean there are no problems.
Or may be we just have to ignore about these people after all they are manily people we should not be worrying about any way. They are manily villagers who will not add to anything to the economy. They are villagers. I cry for my country!
Most Clinics have the tendency to refer every slightly complicated case to UTH. The Mwanawasa Hospital is a white elephant.
Improve health education, nutrition and enviroment and the hospitals will then be begging healthy people to go for checkups.
If outlying health centers are well equipped then UTH will not be so congested.
This is precisely what we have wanted all this time, well equipped outlying health centres, but one Rupiah Banda thought it wiser to get mobile hospitals which cost a hell of a lot to operate, and cannot even reach certain areas, and being Chinese, will soon be “dead”. Hopefully now we start working in this direction.
Maybe these things will disappear in 90 days :-).
PF WHAT IS GOING ON? 68 DAYS TO GO
Simeza, where are you looking?
the so called first level hospitals have no doctors and proper medical equipment. so patients are being referred to u.t.h hence the congestion.
How does one find the nearest mobile hospital or does it have to find you?
aaaiii ipusha kwena!!:d
This is lip development MMD was busy singing. Why open hospitals, transfer equipment on day of commisioning and return it the day after?
This is one area Dr. Kasonde Minister of Health is supposed to look into. We need action in the Health sector failure to address this problem will mean going back 30 yrs back. I dont blame patients who treck to UTH coz there is a serious shortage of Doctors at the first line facilities. Just try to walk into one of the clinics like Chilenje, Bauleni or Railways or George you cant believe the congestion that will greet you.
They only need to improve/equip Mwanawasa hospital,Chainama and the one I just read about in chawama; and we improve conditions of service health workers in diaspora will come back and shortage of staff will be less-not eradicated of course!Congestion at UTH will reduce as well.
We are all aware of the congestion at most hospitals in Zambia but I think it is an exaggeration to say up to 7 patients share one matress. Can LT show us a picture of one of them?
Distant drums. its worse than that my friend.. you need to go to UTH and see for yourself. you’ll have night mares for weeks. a ward or room 8m x8m will be packed with at least 20 pipo in their others on floors included 4 or 5 dead bodies scantily covered lying their for at least 3 hours before their relatives have been able to “borrow” a trolley from another ward and have lifted the body themselves onto that trolley themselves and wheeled it again themselves to the BID section by the Causualty entrance and then removed the body from the trolley themselves and put on the floor as the benches are full, door wide open all passersby can see evrything, but zedians now used to it. and then you go to police post behind BID to complete police report yourself. Thats UTH my friend.
stop lying this is not what happens inspite of the congestion. we all go to uth.
MMD used to refuse that things were not okay at UTH. ZNBC was also cheating by painting a picture that all was well at UTH. Shame!
PF Kaponyas should know that this is no longer an MMD problem it is the government in power that needs to sort this out! crying about MMD this RB that will not de-congest the UTH just get on with the job, that why you were voted for! For how long are you going to be crying about spilt milk?
Am going to nursing school i was inspared by the malawian lady i saw on al jazera after her traing in the USA she went back to malawi to make a change helping people for her she follows the patients you just have to call her on the phone.for the serious cases she brings them back to her hospital i was suprised she even has the equipments she needs.what i wll need is suport.if give a good salary nurses and doctors abroad wil come back to help.
#18 digga, Thank you for your detailed input. It is very disgraceful that while those appalling conditions in our hospitals have become the norm we at the same time had a president who selfishly used state cash to buy 2 luxury cars for his joy rides at a cost of nearly K2 billion. This is just one glaring deed of many crimes commited by the MMD.
#22, Correction, It is K4 billion not K2 b
Caapitalist and Bootlicker fimomo have gone on oblivion! Kekekeke!
Dr Kasonka is a thicko, instead of devising a system of patient referral or appealing to govt to increase bed space he is blaming patients for coming to UTH. Its not the patients fault bwana,the system is faulty. Get that distinction then you will be one step to the solution.
The first line hospitals have no doctors,only clinical officers,no theatres and so even ichipute its refered to uth,which can be done in these clinics.we just need more beds in clinics,doctors and all the necessary facilities in clinics.at mwanawasa there are no doctors.
Which one is mwanawasa hospital if i may ask smebody help.its my first time to hear about .where is it lusaka?
Again, a public-private partnership will work well here with GRZ having say 55% and the public-private partners the rest. GRZ cannot manage all these institutions by itself, they need help. The public sector can provide excellent customer service, something GRZ cannot do.
68 days to go.Barotse Agreement 1964 must be implemented as promised.
We are still waiting for a strategy statement on how is PF gonna structure health services to reduce congestion at UTH. MMD is gone, PF is now in charge. PF promised to deal with these things in 90 days of taking office.
#27 – its newly opened hospital located on a hill, adjacent to Chainama Mental Hospital.Â
I am in a fortunate position where I can share with you: in 5 years time, the situation will be pretty much the same. I hope you have started figuring out who to lay the blame on because it could never be rupiah’s fault
country main dont forget that the last 3yrs wascampaign time, and thank voters rb lost.mwan… hospital was opened before it was ready so are the other healthcentres wrongly called hospitals.they lack equipment, the doctors are not resident but are from the district health MNGT teams and rotate.and then we have congoles at filter clinic who ask you what medicine you wouldlike to take because being french speaking they are not so familiar with common drug names in our lingua. truth was subverted. post reports congestion 2day 2moro simbao comes with znbc and says otherwise. there is a lot of rot,but lets just work together there is light ahead 1 step at atime slow and sure
First of all there is nothing new here, floor beds have been around for decades.
The number of hospital staff is the same while population is going up, poverty is gone up, HIV and TB is gone up, what do you expect? There is very poor preventative primary health in zambia. And what saves those docs is that a lot of those patients just die and thats a sort of natural decongestion measure, but they are replaced by new groups of very sick people. Tell me something i ont know, boring…
@18 Digga , ha ha ha (hysterical laughter), we are one of a kind (you will know), you forgot to mention those relatives (maybee 30 in number) will be drunk as hell and start insulting the doctor who comes to do any paperwork there, oh yeah, and “security” will be nowhere to be seen… zambia the real africa…LOL! You forgot to mention there is no water at UTH after 5pm, no toilets fo even staff, constant delirium and screaming at night, its like a death camp in these movies we see. ok im gonna have a seizure if i continue.
I just thought i heard someone hallucination in UTH ati ” diaspora health workers will come back” , imwe please help this person.
Under-Taker Hospital (UTH) my brother died while I was watching without help because staff told us to find a wheelchair to take him to filter clinic ourselves and this was an emergency at Casualty.
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