Government installs solar fridges at 12 health posts in Mufumbwe district

Government has spent over ten thousand kwacha to install solar fridges at 12 rural health centres in Mufumbwe District in North-Western province.

The centres that have benefitted from the facilities are Kashima, Kinkonge, Nyansonso, Kabanda, Lalafuta, Jivundu, Matushi, Munyambala, Kabipupu, Kalengwa, Musonweji and Miluji wards.

District Medical Officer (DMO), Fred Kapaya, explained that the fridges were among the more than 90 fridges bought by the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health for health centres across the province.

Dr Kapaya stated that installation of fridges at health centres in Mufumbwe would improve storage of vaccines particularly those meant for preventing diseases like measles in children.

Dr Kapaya told ZANIS in an interview in Mufumbwe that the fridges would not only help in terms of storage but also to maintain the potency of the medicines in their storage.

The District Medical Officer further disclosed that fridges were bought to improve service delivery in rural areas like Mufumbwe whose entire area relied on thermal power.

“The fridges were bought by the ministry us we simply transported and installed them at a cost of K10, 000. They are all working well in all the 12 health centres,” Dr Kapaya said