Friday, March 29, 2024

Medical experts in Western province for specialized operations

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A team of medical experts drawn from different health institutions in Zambia is currently in Western province to deal with special medical cases.

Federation Health Institutions Managing Administrator Epiphany Mubanga said the team will in the next five days operate on patients with different conditions.

Mr. Mubanga told ZANIS in Mongu today that the team will handle conditions ranging from surgery, urology, neurology and orthopedics among others.

He said this was a deliberate move by the Ministry of Health to reduce the number of referrals to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH), which is congested.

He said that have been patients identified from all the district in the province have already started arriving in Mongu adding that 37 have so far been registered.

Mr. Mubanga said while in the province, the team will also train local doctors, medical licentiates and clinical officers on trauma management.

He observed that accident related conditions that cause trauma are on the increase in the country hence the need to train health workers at all levels on how to handle such cases.

Mr. Mubanga has since called on people with complicated health conditions in the province to register with the team and cut on their travelling costs to UTH in Lusaka.

ZANIS

19 COMMENTS

  1. Zambia is a bush and if i come back they will send me to the deepest bush mongu.i wil neverrrrrrrrrrrrrr go back.

  2. All the moneys spent on travelling allowances by this large group PLUS the equipment carried along should have been used to buy the basic equipement needed by the resident physicians in Mongu. We should not behave like Missionaries in our own country. Is this the way Zambia is going to be governed? No clear policy, piece-meal activities, un-predictable direction???? My Sata can do better than this, otherwise he is making it very difficult for his successors to win the elections for the second term in 2016 – or maybe he is doing it deliberately to make sure PF dies after him. By the way, I smell a rat about all this Mongu thing. Why now?

  3. This is being undertaken by our very Experienced and Specialized Doctors to help the poor who cant afford to travel to Lusaka where they have no relatives.It has nothing to do Mobile Hospitals. We are talking about Special cases being attended to by  the very few experienced Doctors we have. People with special cases move from Many parts of the country and spend months some of them sleeping at Intercity bus station waiting for the appointment date. The initiative taken by the Ministry should be recommended and must be extended to other provinces.Doctors in Diaspora, consider this and think of the way you can help. Organize your selves and find some NGO for support. With ur experience in many diseases, go to Zambia and help our people. Well done Doctors

    • Are you RECOMMENDING “Mobile Hospitals in guise”???

      Of course Visiting Specialist Programme should be commended. This as opposed to the above, means most of the basic equipment & medicines are ALREADY AVAILABLE at the local hospital, but what is lacking is the Specialist expertise, which in this case suppliments the missing chink in the jigsaw. The deliberate targeting & concentration of these cases, allows for the specialists to get down to work in the shortest possible time as well as hopefully complete the same work in the shortest time, making for an efficient excursion, but achieving the greatest benefit to both the system & patients!!

  4. @6 Saimbwende,

    How can Sata lose elections in 2016 when these doctors are going to heal your Cousin whom you have neglected and failed to help with your diaspora salary and has been in pain for 10 years. Not forgetting that he holds a voters card unlike you. 

  5. ‘Mr. Mubanga told ZANIS in Mongu today that the team will handle conditions ranging from surgery, urology, neurology and orthopedics among others.’

    Those are definetly new conditions not known in the west. How does a patient with ‘nerology’ present like for example?

    • Involuntary vocal cord spasms resulting in vocalisation of the words “Donchi kubeba” is how they present boss.

      This exercise takes place annually in all provinces, so I do not see what the big deal is beyond massaging political egos. What would be useful is the decentralisation of cancer treatment services out of Lusaka to all the provinces because if a diagnosis is made after surgical intervention, the patient now has to find their way to Cancer Diseases Hospital.

  6. LT post me the full copy of Dr.Rodger Chongwe report so that I get informed.Why is it that Postnewspaper is releasing bits and pieces of the same and claiming its confidential.I feel mis-informed by this state of affairs.Please find and post that report.I can not trust the para-phrased Postnewspaper versions

  7. THAT IS GOOD BUT TO BE HONEST IT IS THE SAME MMD MOBILE CLINIC WHICH WE HIGHLY CRITICISED. WE JUST GOT FADE UP OF MMD NO WONDER ALL WAS BAD.

  8. While I understand that it’s the desire of any serious govt. to take medical services as close to its people as is possible for timely and cost effective service delivery. This also helps the patients reduce the impact on their wallets. The motive maybe genuine but this may eventually turn out to be more costly to govt. than to have these patients come to UTH. There is the issue of moving medical equipment and other supplies to be used in the procedures, lodging, allowances etc…
    I hope it not being abused as a cash cow by those involved in the scheme

  9. No 4 you are not even in Russioa, you her are in Muchinga Escarpment where you are sharing the food withmonkeys.

    With or without mobile hospitals , Viva Barosteland, lONG live King Imwiko .

  10. where are the mobile hospitals..?now you want to finish the people of western province so that the BRE-64 closes..hahahaha

  11. Yaaba!! another silly gimmick by ba Sata.I think we need to hear the full report of Dr roger chongwe and his team.playing such games will not resolve the barotse issue.

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