Minister of\u00a0Health Elijah Muchima has hailed personnel at Lewanika General Hospital\u00a0in Mongu district in Western Province\u00a0for their commitment to duty.<\/p>\n
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Dr\u00a0Muchima says health services are\u00a0critical to national development, emphasising that the country cannot develop without health personnel.<\/p>\n
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He\u00a0was speaking\u00a0to\u00a0Journalists at Mongu\u00a0Airport enroute to Shang’ombo\u00a0district ahead of\u00a0the Child\u00a0Health\u00a0Week commemorations.<\/p>\n
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Dr Muchima disclosed that the government is committed to uplifting the welfare of people in the country through construction of health infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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The\u00a0Minister\u00a0revealed that\u00a0the government is working hard\u00a0to improve the health of the\u00a0people, which includes those that are found in the remotest part of the country.<\/p>\n
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He\u00a0added that the\u00a0government has procured\u00a0four health\u00a0scanning machines that are expected to be distributed\u00a0to\u00a0Mwandi,\u00a0Nalolo, Mongu and Sesheke\u00a0districts\u00a0in Western Province.<\/p>\n
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The Minister is optimistic that once the machines are distributed\u00a0to the\u00a0health care centres,\u00a0they will improve health\u00a0service\u00a0delivery in the\u00a0province.<\/p>\n
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Dr Muchima pointed out that handwork is\u00a0a cornerstone in any profession, adding that it is a prime base through which a civil servant is evaluated and has since asked medical personnel in the province to remain steadfast in exhibiting high levels of commitment towards work.<\/p>\n
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He\u00a0also cautioned civil servants involved in active politics to resign or\u00a0risk facing disciplinary actions or dismissal from the service.<\/p>\n
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And Western Province Health Director Samutumwa Njekwa told the Minister that Lewanika General Hospital has in recent years recorded\u00a0unprecedented infrastructure development.<\/p>\n
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Dr Njekwa said\u00a0that\u00a0the increased number\u00a0of\u00a0medical equipment supplied to the hospital such as\u00a0x-ray, scanning machines and also the\u00a0construction of\u00a0the\u00a0Oxygen plant at Lewanika General Hospital, has reduced referral cases to the\u00a0University Teaching Hospital\u00a0in Lusaka.<\/p>\n
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Minister of\u00a0Health Elijah Muchima has hailed personnel at Lewanika General Hospital\u00a0in Mongu district in Western Province\u00a0for their commitment to duty. Dr\u00a0Muchima says health services are\u00a0critical to national development, emphasising that the country cannot develop without health personnel. He\u00a0was speaking\u00a0to\u00a0Journalists at Mongu\u00a0Airport enroute to Shang’ombo\u00a0district ahead of\u00a0the Child\u00a0Health\u00a0Week commemorations. Dr Muchima disclosed that the government is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}