University Teaching Hospital (UTH) Managing Director Lackson Kasonka has praised government for the massive investment in the Health sector.
Mr Kasonka said the government of the day has done a lot in infrastructure development such the building of hospitals, Clinics and revamping the distribution of essential drugs in most of the hospitals across the nation.
The Managing Director said this during the official opening of the UTH annual performance system package workshop at UTH in Lusaka yesterday.
Dr Kasonka said the workshop is about learning of skills in Lapanoscopic Hernia Repair which he said will run from March 24 to 26, 2015.
He stated that the workshop will be attended by professors from different walks of life and the Ministry of health staff personnel.
He added that government intends to open up a heart surgical programme in order to bring health services closer to the people of Zambia.
Dr Kasonka further stated that government should be praised for continued support of training and retraining of health personnel in the nation.
He noted that government’s aim is to make sure that citizens have quality health services for their healthier lives.
Dr Kasonka further urged participants to take interest in learning new skills during the workshop so that they will be able to discharge their noble duties professionally.
So why did GRZ send Nsanda to South Africa. Everytime u praise these leaders they think all is well. Be factual people
A statement like this from job-seekers like Lackson Kasonka should be strongly condemned – with the contempt it deserves – by all ordinary Zambians. He already has a job but still sings praises even when it’s obvious that the leaders he worships don’t use the imaginary investment at UTH.
Don’t dispute just for the sake of politicking,govnt has indeed done a lot of infrastructure development such
the building of hospitals, Clinics and revamping
the distribution of essential drugs in most of the
hospitals across the country. The health sector is not as perfect as we want it to be,but this government has set a base to get to were we want the health sector to be. Transformation cannot happen overnight.
Is Kasonka realistic? He is talking about distribution of drugs across the country! Is this true or not? The problem with some of these is they always want to be seen to be praising the government to safeguard their jobs.
DrKasonka ,I can’t belive this!
.A few days ago we were told that Zambia achieved 2 of the 8 millennium goals.Goals 4 &5 specifically talks about reduction of deaths in children and pregnant women.
The causes of death in children and pregnant women are preventable if we deliberately commit to deal with the preventable causes.
Now we are talking about complicated procedures like laparoscopy and open heart surgery while we allow pregnant women to deliver on the floor and our children die to die of diarrhoea.Who are the advisers of the ministry of Health.
Dr.Kasonka ,I know you are protecting your job but remember the oath you swore and that goes to all the other doctors who are quiet while our children and women continue dying in droves.
Kasonka ,I can’t believe this!
A few days ago we were told that Zambia achieved 2 of the 8 millennium goals.Goals 4 &5 specifically talks about reduction of deaths in children and pregnant women.
The causes of death in children and pregnant women are preventable if we only deliberately commit to deal with the preventable causes.
Now we are talking about complicated procedures like laparoscopy and open heart surgery while we allow pregnant women to deliver on the floor and our children to die of diarrhoea.Who are the advisers of the ministry of Health?
Dr.Kasonka ,I know you are protecting your job but remember the oath you swore and that goes to all the other doctors who are quiet while our children and women continue dying in droves.
Seriously? Was is not the other day when someone was complaining about the stalled construction works at UTH? I give up!
Dr Kasonka should avoid making political statement .why are government leaders dying in foreign hospitals if they were investing in our local hospitals. Some things are better left unsaid Dr Kasonka or you will lose credibility
Jesus wept – ati CEO; Mr Kasonka, the state of yo institution bears witness to the sort of sh!t you just uttered. 99% of dead zambians die in yo death-traps BECAUSE of lack of maintenance, investment and vision; shut yo gob, u wouldn’t make a good minister either or whatever you are trying to get!
WTF! Kasonka got his dates mixed up, he was supposed to make that speech next week on April 1st.
You are naughty, I dig your humour…..April 1st
Absolutely! He is a joker! Hospitals do not have drugs,work has stalled at UTH due to erratic funding. Leaders are going out for treatment. Zambians are running to private hospitals which some can’t afford. They are forced to do so because of the poor state of the government hospitals. The poor attitude of the medical workers, (this can be attributed to poor pay and lousy attitude by govt), patients sleeping on bare mattresses. Has Kasonka been to UTH Casualty? Obviously not. It looks worse than a bus station.
I think this Kasonka is just a PF cadre who should be told to keep his mouth shut. Why did you sendChangwa to South Africa for something which UTH performed 30 years ago? Why has Nsanda died in South Africa? Kasonka don’t provoke us to start calling you as a doctor of the belly
Yeah, right! So improved that ECL was treated in RSA for a condition that was treatable in Zambia 30 years ago! Just like @Biz, nafyola mwe!
The same nonsense UNIP leaders used to spew has persisted through the ages. It is sickening that even those tasked with being vanguards of the voiceless are no different from the foxes and wolves we expect them to protect us from. This is disheartening.
THE PF GOVT IS FAILING TO FIX THE ECONOMY AND THE DEPRECIATION OF THE KWACHA ,PF HAS NO CAPACITY AND SHUD SWALLOW ITS PRIDE AND INVITE HH TO HELP
This UTH man should be fired for making political statements and yet he knows his masters go to south Africa even to see a dentist.
I am of the view that he is a cadre. He has that same face seen on a cadre. He could be related to Sata! He is looking for a ministerial position that is why he is politicizing.
Did he see the pictures of Ndola Central Hospital?
This man is not being sincere by making such baseless statements. The state of the health care in Zambia is appalling. Just yesterday I saw a picture of a ward which is flooded in Ndola General hospital because of leakages, the walls in that hospital have never been repainted since the hospital was built. My cousin was admitted in the same hospital yesterday for malaria and he was put on a drip without medicine. Is this what this man calls investment? Please give us a break. If he wants a job in politics, he must just join a political party and leave. Stop politicking please.
Even the politicians he is praising are busy laughing at him because they now know he is dull!
Ati huge investments in health? what a lie Kasonka. I know students in some African universities who are languishing for two years without their tuition fees paid by MOH.
you expect these fellas to come back after training ? Forget!
Zambia is now a laughing stock of Africa .
The same chap was earlier complaining about lack of funding from Govt for many unfinished projects. So what has now changed within a week. anyway? Tired of these pronouncement aimed making the masses to believe that the govt is working and yet there is nothing to show for it. Besides there is no point in making such pronouncement when it is the duty of the govt to invest in the health sector. You employ them to do somethings and you start praising them for it like it is good will. Wake lackson take your bootlicking elsewhere.
Ala – thought that is what government is meant to do? #smh
This article is a pure fabrication by some government oriented reporter. The Managing Directors address to the opening ceremony of the said workshop was televised and he did not say all those lies about the praise on government attributed to him in the article. He talked about what UTH is doing under difficult conditions.