Government has appealed to management at the Chinese owned Sinozam Friendship Hospital in Kitwe to consider employing Zambian Doctors to promote private Public partnership and enhance service delivery at the institution.
ZANIS Kitwe Reports that Copperbelt Minister Mwansa Mbulakulima said there was need for management at the hospital to employ local Zambian Doctors to promote the spirit of Private Public Partnership.
He said this will also help integrate the delivery of health care to the local community by the four Chinese Doctors currently working at the hospital with their Zambian Counterparts.
Mr Mbulakulima who was accompanied by the Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Jenipher Musonda said this in Kitwe today when he toured Sinozam Friendship Hospital and the Kitwe Central Hospital Eye department.
He said despite the hospital having latest modern medical equipment the facilities were under utilised due to lack of local medical personnel working at the institution.
He added that the hospital has no Zambian Doctors, a situation, he said, has made most of the residents to shun the institution.
The hospital has a workforce of 84 members of staff, 34 of whom were nurses, support staff, one Indian Doctor and three Chinese Doctors.
He said there was also need for Government medical Hospitals to access the medical facilities at Sinozam to ensure that they were utilised fully.
And Sinozam Friendship Hospital Chief Medical Officer Dr Qia Sheng said the Hospital will spend over US$350,000 on the rehabilitation of infrastructure at the Hospital.
Dr Sheng said management at the institution has decided to give a new face to the hospital by replacing the ceiling and the floors and also procure new equipment to enhance service delivery.
He also disclosed that the Hospital would consider employing a qualified Zambian Doctor as directed by Government.
Others who accompanied the minister include Kitwe DC MacDonald Mtine, Provincial Health Director Dr Chandwe Ngambi and Kitwe Central Hospital Director Dr John Mwewa.
OOOPs ,i will get there for interviews when i get pa zed.But i just don wanna be intimidated by our Chinese friends there.Hope the ministries concerned will put enough effort as required and make sure those guys don make videos in the hospitals to show China at pa zed ba chushi saana as they did on Mwanawasa’s compaign ku soweto market saying that’s zambia’s general infrastructure
A pity that we have to beg foreigners to ‘consider’ employing us in our own country.
#1. Firstly, compliments of the season.
I can assure you that the minister’s begging was out of having nothing to say. The salaries and working conditions offered by these guys have not been attractive to Zedians. We are not in much of a hurry to get employed by these guys.
Lets appreciate that the Chines have opened up a private Hospital and have brought their own doctors. Most Government Hospitals do not even have Zambian Doctors and Rural Health Centres cant even afford to hire a local nurse. Why should we pretented as if we have enough medical staff in the country. Most rural health centres are run by CDE’s – Office asstants who have aquired some exprience in dispensing drugs for minor illnesses by having worked alongside enrolled nurses for some time.
Pay our zambian doctors well and they wont be leaving zambia? our government does not appreciate education? they would rather allocate themselves herty salaries and yet want to continue paying civil servants peanuts? doctors continue migrating for better wages..!
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