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MUCHINGA PROVINCE CRY FOR RELIABLE PROVISION OF ELECTRICITY
By Wells Chifunda
Muchinga Province Permanent Secretary Henry Mukungule says lack of reliable electricity in the province has subjected many people in the region to difficulty livelihoods.
Speaking when REA board Chairperson Engineer Likonge Mulenga paid a courtesy call on him, Mr Mukungule said the province has lagged behind in terms of development due to lack of electricity.
The PS says investors have been failing to invest in the province due to lack of electricity and to this effect he has called on the Rural Electrification Authority to consider connecting most parts of the province to the national grid.
He said that the government has been importing electricity from Malawi to feed certain districts such has Mafinga district and adding that the electricity provided was not always table.
Mr Mukungule has revealed further that the province intends to host an investment forum next year to attract investors to invest in the province.
REA board chairperson was accompanied by REA Chief Executive Officer Engineer Linus Chanda and other too REA Executives who are in the province to commission the Sansamwenji Grid extension project.
27.09.2022
08/09/2022
Zambia's Health System Requires Holistic Approach To Achieve Universal Health Service Delivery
By Christopher Kalumba
The Health system management needs a very strong concerted efforts in order to achieve a holistic approach in our health service delivery agenda in our county. The system of considering each profession to be a very important factor in achieving the desired health outcome. A good Health management system should not always assume that one specific profession can lead a management role at health facility, Hospital level, District level or even at provincial level.
In Zambia we have assumed a Nurse should be the incharge at the health facility while we have other professions who can take a lead of a incharge as well. A Clinical officer, Pharmacist, Biomedical Scientist, Public Health Scientist and many other health profession can be the incharge what is needed is a management background.
The incharge position is a management position meaning any health worker at the health facility can be the incharge provided he or she has management background skill. We need to accept the reality that those with management qualifications should start leading management positions in the ministry of health in order to avoid profession rivalry.
We should not assume as well that medical doctors are better managers in the ministry of health and we start assuming that, distinct director or provincial director should always be a medical doctor.
Let management position be left to any health worker with a management qualifications. ..
Let all health profession be equal to lead management positions provided they have management background.
Even at the Ministry of Health Head Quarters we need such balance of people holding directorate positions and not just giving them to Medical doctors.
The Permanent Secretary position can be taken to any health worker with a management skill and not just Medical Doctors.
The challenge in our health system in Zambia we have let Medical Doctors to lead management positions and planing and this as resulted to have a very skewed approach in our health service delivery approach.
The example is of the recruitment of 11,200 health workers we had for example we saw a very big number to those coming from curative than those who can from the preventive profession, this is because our health system is more controlled from the curative side profession. We see Medical doctors taking a lead in most management position.
Universal health coverage or the target of Primary health care can only be achieved when holistic approach to health service delivery is respected.
The author is National Coordinator-Public Health Association of Zambia. He holds a
BSc in Public Health an MBA-in Health Care Management
08.09.2022
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