The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) targets to conduct 50 Open Heart surgeries this year.
UTH Director of Clinical Care and Diagnostics services Alex Makupe says the institution is aiming at improving the level of medical practice and care of patients.
Speaking to ZNBC News, Dr Makupe said Zambian surgeons have been conducting open-heart surgery on patients this week, with the technical support of a team from Japan.
He said going forward, the local medical teams at the hospital will be able to conduct the surgeries on their own.
Dr Makupe said the overall objective is to equip the UTH with enough expertise to conduct major operations, while the first level hospitals will deal with minor ones.
fry a man a fish and he will ask for salt and water to drink, teach a man to fish and he shall ask for fish no more, only legana sausage, the case of uth and how the government has invested heavily in the right tools for the health sector. some would justify the works as a norm since it’s tax payers money, so what? are you the only tax payer? secondly if I give a contractor money to build me a lodge, shouldn’t I commend a job well done despite the fact that I paid that very contractor. I’m saying it’s the first time 50 heart surgeries will be taken in a year, I’m saying pf is beyond 2021. I’m transcendent and I approve this message
How many of the 50 have been scheduled so far, and what are the possible challenges that might derail the target? Asking for a friend who didn’t find much in your report.
Sunday humour: maybe they need to operate on hh to see if he has a heart at all kz
This is great and a step in the right direction.
How can you target to do something without actually telling us the number of patients on the waiting list. We are still relying on donor support for this 50 years after independence yet you have a President proud of the Chinese building a gift in a $60 million conference centre that will be used twice a year when health services are lacking.
Somehow UPND sycophants will find something negative to say about this. What a useless bunch they are!!!
What is the record of success at UTH? Very scary with load shedding.
Zambia in The Sun – exactly you can not spew out such targets without even telling us how many operations they have carried out successfully…tell us what the donors are providing is it back up generators. These facilities will never improve so long as we have ministers and the President rushing without shame to RSA for basics like bruised arm or dental check up.
HH does not have a heart that is why he is a member of some organisation which likes blood.