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By STANSLOUS NGOSA –
SENIOR Chief Mushota of Kawambwa District in Luapula Province has called on Government to send more qualified staff to health institutions in the area to improve delivery of quality healthcare services.
Chief Mushota said this when Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya handed over an ambulance to Mushota Rural Health centre at the weekend.
He said there was need for Government to ensure all health centres were manned by qualified staff to ensure quality healthcare delivery.
“Even if the rural health centres can have adequate infrastructure and medicine but have no adequate qualified people, then we won’t have quality healthcare service delivery,” he said.
The traditional ruler, however, commended Government for improving the road network which he said was critical in the provision of primary healthcare services in the area.
Meanwhile, former deputy speaker Jason Mfula commended Government for equitable distribution and provision of healthcare services to the people of Zambia.
Mr Mfula said the equitable distribution of infrastructure development projects by Government had put the country on a right path for economic and social growth especially now that the country was celebrating the independence golden-jubilee.
“It is good that we are going back to the days when infrastructure development was a priority on the country’s development agenda. This is good because infrastructure development is key to the opening of the country’s economy further,” Mr Mfula said.
He was happy that the construction of the Mansa-Luwingu-Kawambwa Road was taking shape stressing that the road would help spur development in the rural part of the country.
Dr Chilufya, who also handed over ambulances to Chipili and Mwenda rural health centres, said Government was committed to improving the health sector to ensure improved quality healthcare delivery to the general citizenry.
The health deputy minister said Government was in the process of turning the Mushota Rural Health centre into a zonal clinic and that actual construction works were scheduled to start next month.
He said currently the project for the clinic, which would consist of a maternity annex, was at a tendering stage.
Chieftainess Mwenda, who expressed happiness with the ambulance provided to the rural health centre in his chiefdom, commended Government for projects of construction of schools noting that an educated population was a recipe to national development.
Dr Chilufya also took time to inspect progress works on the project for construction of the Kawambwa District Hospital.