Medical Equipment worth millions of Kwacha installed at Chilombwe rural health centre in Luto area in Wusakili Constituency is gathering dust, as there are no experts to operate it.
The rural health centre which has been closed for a year now, has not been operational because the only nurse in charge retired from the public service a year ago and since then there has not been any replacement.
A concerned citizen from the area who sought anonymity complained to ZANIS in Kitwe yesterday that the expensive equipment has been lying idle for long time and that government should urgently send medical staff to run the instituion and expressed fears that the equipment would either be stole or vandalised.
He also said one of the two water tanks has already been stolen by unknown people and the matter had been reported to relevant authorities for action.
And Kitwe District Commissioner Mr. Macdonald Mtine when asked to comment on the closed rural health centre said his offices was aware of the problem and that a caretaker is already at the centre to look after it.
He added that everything was being done to ensure that members of staff were deployed to the area to man the centre.
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It can only be in the Zed. They prefer sending people to SA and yet the equipment is gathering dust.
Is that the qualified medical personnel to operate the machine have left for greener pastures. bwafya sana
AND the leardership thnikns all is well in Zed. Kwane batupesha ama ba mumbwe, these same people that we have entrusted with leadership are a total failure.; Its time fr or a revolution pas ZED!
Cry my beloved Zambia
Cry My Beloved Zambia!!
What happened to staff who used to operate the equipment before. Were they retrenched or they just disappeared in thin airs. Can some one explain. There is no way medical equipment cannot be operated on CB for lack of manpower. that is total madness and scandalous of the year.
Can some one do something rather than just persecuting people that are telling the public the truth. Some Chituwo just yaps around in Lusaka instead of visiting such places to see what is on the ground. Nichi government chashani ichi pliz.
If RB’s government can’t manager a fixed clinic, which does not need parts replacement, refuelling, servicing, etc, but only needs appropriate staffing, and consistent medical supplies, how on earth do they intend to manage the famous Mobile Hospitals??
Cat these leaders all be struck by lightning at once so we can ushe in a totally new leadership?
Can he specify what the ‘medical equipment worth millions of kwacha’ is? I cannot think of medical equipment needing ‘eperts’ to operate that can be installed in a Rural Health centre! We should look at facts of the case before jumping to conclusions. A rural health centre is likely to have equipment that a nurse and clinical officer can use in dressing up wounds, delivering mothers in labour and treating minor ailments such as malaria, bilharzia, etc. They may need a light microscope to look at samples, autoclave to sterilize instruments, table lights for viewing etc. So what experts are missing?
This is a scandle.If people can be deployed to the health center for 1 year,what do you expect to find in Kaputa.Shame on you the DHMT in Kitwe
Are we not ashamed of ourselves. so some health centers have closed and yet we say there is no crisis? we can never mock God, one thing left is for the lord to smite the smiter of the zambian people becoz people have suffered enough.
# 10 bear in mind that the nurse,apprently the expert at that level,retired 1 year ago and these people cant find a replacement.Be it Autoclaves,microscopes and whatever,they cost the tax payers money.
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