IGovernment has called on the community in Ikelenge district, Northwestern province to support new health workers that have been deployed to Kalene mission hospital to address human capital challenges that the health facility has been facing.
Ikelenge district commissioner, Victor Kayekesi, says Government wants harmony to prevail between the community and health workers at the mission hospital.
ZANIS reports that Mr. Kayekesi said this when he addressed members of the community in Nyakaseya area following deployment of four doctors by government to Kalene mission hospital.
The district commissioner warned the people in the border district to desist from divisive and tribal remarks against medical personnel at the health facility.
Mr. Kayekesi said President Edgar Lungu is committed to rolling out quality healthcare services to all parts of the country and that no one should be working to frustrate government efforts aimed at achieving universal health coverage.
Meanwhile, Kalene health affiliated centers chairperson, Christopher Kaping’a, has thanked government for intervening in the human resource crisis at Kalene mission hospital.
Mr. Kaping’a has since assured government that the community in Kalene will give full support to the new medical officers that have been deployed to the hospital.
A protest by members of the community in March this year peddled tribal remarks against medical staff at Kalene mission hospital for allegedly scheming to remove the
Christian Missions in Many Lands (CMML) board of health from the health facility.
12 senior medical officers including a doctor left the hospital in the ensuing fracas that left some health workers’ houses looted.
I remember how some of my teachers at Mambilima who came from far places decided to settle in our villages after retiring. This was long before the One Zambia One Nation was coined. What has happened? Our leaders have promoted this such as when Dr Sondashi as provincial minister banned outside languages in Solwezi and banned outsiders from attending colleges in Solwezi. Otherwise we are all peaceful people who love one another.
Remember what Sata described those people in that region? He was rogjt. You do not have trained people from your area but you need medical doctors, and when they are brought from other areas to serve you, you stone them. Leave them to medicate themselves with herbs
THIS WHY I WILL NEVER RESPECT YOUR SATA HE WAS TOO TRIBAL….AND SIMPLISTIC …A LEADER SHOULD SAY FIND A NURSE WHO CAN INTERPRET WHAT THE DOCTOR IS ASKING AND ENCOURAGE A NORMAL DOCTOR TO LEARN BASICS
Which tribe doesn’t produce qualified people? Why only 2 tribes dominate government posts?
People politicize every thing even better service that government give citizens.Politicians definitely were responsible for EXPULSION of health givers. They could have cited the community of violence in the area. This is evil manners by opposition leaders who, should desist ,so that government should deliver their promises to the voters.
why i’am not suprised?