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HEALTH Workers Get 100 % SALARY INCREMENT, TEACHERS Cry FOUL
GOVERNMENT has increased salaries for all health workers by 100 percent, Minister of Labour, Sport and Youth Chishimba Kambwili said in Ndola yesterday.
He said the pay rise will boost morale among health workers across the country.
“Today , we have increased the salaries for all our health workers by 100 percent, so when the PF government says it is putting more money into people’s pockets, we mean business and we are serious,” Mr Kambwili said.
The minister was speaking after visiting Morganite Limited. He said Government is concerned about the poor salaries many workers get across the country.
Mr Kambwili said the salary increment for health workers is an indication that Government is committed to improving salaries for civil servants, as promised during election campaigns.
And in another development, Mr Kambwili has ordered Morganite Limited general manager Stanley Kampo to report to the ministry next Tuesday.
The minister said Government is concerned with reports that Mr Kampo abuses workers and insults them.
“First of all, I am shocked that the person we are talking about is a Zambian and honestly, how can he do that to fellow Zambians? I want him next Tuesday at my office so that he can answer the allegations,” Mr Kambwili said.
He was speaking at Morganite Limited after paying a surprise visit to the company. The minister also ordered management to engage a human resource manager to help the company with personnel issues. Mr Kambwili said management should also allow workers to form a union.
And workers complained about the poor salaries offered by management. One worker said the pay slip does not indicate the housing allowance paid to workers and that they have not had a salary increment for the past four years.
Meanwhile, PRESIDENT Sata has asked Minister of Finance Alexander Chikwanda to explore ways of doubling remuneration of Zambian doctors as a way of putting more money in their pockets and improve health.
Mr. Sata also said rural health centres in the country are in a deplorable state and it is important to improve the doctor to patient ratio by having more doctors attend to patients in rural centres.
“I am pleading with the Minister of Finance,” President Sata said. “We have to find ways of doubling salaries for doctors to beat others in the region, so that we can attract our doctors back.”
If the doctors wages are doubled, a junior Zambian doctor from the University of Zambia could take home about K10 million which is still less than their colleagues in Nambia and South Africa.
President Sata said this at State House yesterday after he swore in a deputy minister, a permanent secretary and ambassadors and high commissioners.
He regretted that it has taken long for some ambassadors and high commissioners to take up their positions despite being appointed as far back as October last year, because of the poor record previous office holders left behind and urged new diplomats to exhibit exemplary behaviour.
The President’s directive is in line with the Patriotic Front campaign promise to improve the health sector by facilitating the building of vital infrastructure that will deliver primary healthcare as close to the people as possible.
In its manifesto on human resource, the PF says it intends to improve conditions of service to minimise the brain-drain.
It also plans to “rehabilitate and expand existing health training institutions to increase the number of graduates”.
Recently, President Sata announced an ambitious plan to erect some 650 health centres countrywide to make health care more accessible.
He said the new health posts are lined up as follows: 98 in Southern Province while Central Province will have 52 and Western Province will have 62 new health posts.
Mr Sata said new health posts will bring with them the benefits of boosting the construction sector and consequently job creation during the construction phase, plus greater access to health, especially in rural areas.
Northern Province will have 107 new health posts while North-Western Province will have 74. Lusaka Province will have 27, Luapula 63, Eastern 68 and Copperbelt 87.
The President said the health posts and residence facilities will be equipped with solar systems, equipment and furniture, hand pumps, medicines, dressing materials, electricity and running water.
President Sata also instructed the Minister of Health Dr Joseph Kasonde to step up the recruitment of health personnel both locally and abroad to ensure that the new health posts are adequately staffed.
Meanwhile, teachers have cried foul over non-increment of their salaries.
Teachers who sought anonymity told Tumfweko that the government should quickly increase their salaries as they have done to the health workers.
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AJ
January 26, 2012 at 9:33 am
GOOD DEVELOPMENT
chanda kabwe
January 26, 2012 at 9:37 am
its more money in the pockets for health workers.what about us teachers,when are we going to have more money in our pockets
Chakaka
January 26, 2012 at 9:38 am
This will just cause a rise in inflation and it will soon bring back the zeros on our notes. I feel 100% is too much. every one will be calling for 100% increment.
okonko
January 26, 2012 at 9:41 am
Thats my vote working,viva shikulu pabwato as 4teachers chil its one step at a tym.
MICK
January 26, 2012 at 9:42 am
bigger ups to pf we are very confindent that you will deliver and we are yet to see more works we are proud of you our presido
Fidel Lapaz
January 26, 2012 at 9:50 am
Thats recommendable mr president….bt the gap between the rich and the poor is widening….this must also be categorised as it is with PAYE.
A cleaner getting K700 will now be getting K1400 and an administrator getting K6000 will nw bw getting K12000.see the gap
bashi chalwe
January 26, 2012 at 9:50 am
its not fair, next it will be police bcoz ba kaseba has helped her profession so the president will also do the same to the police…
Fidel Lapaz
January 26, 2012 at 9:50 am
Thats recommendable mr president….bt the gap between the rich and the poor is widening….this must also be categorised as it is with PAYE.
A cleaner getting K700 will now be getting K1400 and an administrator getting K6000 will now be getting K12000.see the gap
Mrs XYZ_1980
January 26, 2012 at 9:55 am
if you reverse this one ba mudala we are rioting. good move
atm
January 26, 2012 at 9:56 am
Economists whats your say? Can this bring inflation considering the low salaries workers get. Advice
jo
January 26, 2012 at 9:57 am
Everything is police and ministry of health. Is it because husband and wife were respectively as above.
There is more to this country.
NGOSHE KULUPAKO
January 26, 2012 at 9:58 am
TWALYA AGAIN! THATS WHY WE AREB IN THE BOAT AND INFACT ALL GOVERNMENT WORKERS HAVE BEEN AWARDED HANDSOMELY! VIVA OUR GREAT TITANIC! VIVA KING COBRA!
Kalulete
January 26, 2012 at 10:00 am
Good move 2 nurse nomba stop watching Tvs durin workin hrs those TV’s in hospital & some clinics are 4 patients & 4 teachers less money more folk tales in classes & extra lessons 2 meet dea demands
kwekwe
January 26, 2012 at 10:05 am
good move mr. Presido. Now we hv a problem with the police,pay thm also nicely so tht we start driving peacefully. Wednesday was just too much police in roads. Ths hungry chaps are delaying us and our bussiness ar bin disturbed just for a 30,000.
bobby
January 26, 2012 at 10:10 am
how of southern province?
Mutembo
January 26, 2012 at 10:16 am
Back to the Kaunda days. Salary increaments awarded at press conferences. Watch inflation in the coming months??
Mutembo
January 26, 2012 at 10:18 am
Us who lived in the Kaunda days know what happens?? prices of goods will start going up?? before you know it the increment is swallowe up??
Mrs XYZ_1980
January 26, 2012 at 10:23 am
you people stop being negative please..you re spoiling the mood. its hard to come up with a shopping list when u keep talking and being negative
Mrs XYZ_1980
January 26, 2012 at 10:30 am
someone pinch me,,…thank u for this increment
Ready 4 Marriage
January 26, 2012 at 10:36 am
Imwe tu teacher behave. ‘A for Aple’, ‘B for Ball’ is what you know best and then you need increments.
Idiots..
Icipondo
January 26, 2012 at 10:44 am
Here we go! Thanx mr kambwili & pf GRz for addressing the plight of health workers. Hope other ministries wil follw suit. Salary increment won’t affect inflation value it wil contribute mor on improving standard of living. God Bless our nation. Big up pf!
Quality of service.
January 26, 2012 at 10:55 am
I sure hope the quality of service will improve with the increased salaries because most of these health workers are straight up lazy and annoying!
True bantustans:
January 26, 2012 at 10:59 am
kambwili,kambwili,kambwili sure why?!for god sake let kambwili behave,when did he became saralies commite chairman? does he know what he is surposed to do? yaa kuti waseka,who,s hell is kambwili to summon mr kompa,let him pliz start thinking that is gov and not pf.Thanx
DC
January 26, 2012 at 11:00 am
@ ready4marriage
the fact that u aint a teacher doesnt mean you should be insulting them. WHo ever you are, its because a teacher taught you how to read and write. its like calling you parents who paid your school fees an *****. and if your dad is an ***** you know what it means, mwana wanjoka, ni njoka. learn to respect other people.
mulenga
January 26, 2012 at 11:01 am
@r4m if not 4 the tr u wudn’t b articulating the way u are doin.lets learn 2 show appreciation were its due not ukulanda fye 4the seek 4 wanting 2b heared tht mwalishiba ukuponta…grow up get yoself a life insulting trs wil not take u anywere.
miselo lillian
January 26, 2012 at 11:04 am
Viva Mr president i hope this applies to all government workers.
l.m.k.
Kantwa
January 26, 2012 at 11:15 am
More money in our pockets
kj
January 26, 2012 at 11:19 am
just chill teachers Yoz is coming just soon i believe DAT and u will be smiling.he cant 4sake u its u who develops teachers and health workers examine our health its equal job.I support DC,guz lets not insult one another both we are contributing for this development we are seeing without a teacher how do we have a doctor or accountant and without a doctor wht happens to our health?
iam appriciating to all depatments of my life just from grade one coz i remember one day just after class i saw nurses @ our school very concend wit our health inyeleti sana pama boko and bucs.so no need of insulting for me and u to be were we are deffernt departments contributed.
kano nga nibo
January 26, 2012 at 11:22 am
zoona good news perhaps our nurses abroad will decide to come back and serve their own pipo
East Point na Tall trees Boy
January 26, 2012 at 11:27 am
Ready for Marriage YOU ARE A SWINE CHI COLOUR!!!!
health worker.
January 26, 2012 at 11:29 am
tell me this is a lie,am abroad on a weak training guys u should have seen me scream and jump.thats my president,u should have seen me earlier talk about our pride and our presidents simplicity..thank u and guys its coming to all of u am sure,at last…sweet victory…
nakferd
January 26, 2012 at 11:41 am
ok,all what is in this artical counts.the lucky ones but very few stand chances of being employed during the construction phases of the mentioned health posts,which is not going to be a job to rely so much on.why is it that everyone entrusted with authority has gone to sleep concerning the engineering sector.its hell to graduate as an electrical and or mechanical engineer.zesco stoped employing genuinely and the industries that we are everyday pushed to are pathetic.they employ two people in every field,the rest are left to roam the industrial streets, this leaves you with a mental sicknes that results into career change which you can not atain due to insuficient credit as more responsibility comes with time.maybe i perceive things in a different perception,i wonder.guarding is our every day source of income.maybe we should all join the directly government employed fields.with the advance in technology ,we expected much opportunities but its a nightmare arrangement.what is the problem? stay your paper in the house deprive you of exposure to advance in technology resulting into incompetence.its just hard to survive gentlemen and ladies.big ups to those in employment,good luck!
KEN
January 26, 2012 at 11:47 am
Teachers should have patience Rome was not built in a day. Teachers are’nt the only civil servants in Zambia. Lets be patient with the government and see how they meet all our needs.The government is working on improving the lives of every Zambian their turn would come
Big Nelz
January 26, 2012 at 11:47 am
Ebufwashi ubu,bati nibalya indikwiite.Congratulations Mr President.Gud job bwana minister.
Ex-CBU-CS
January 26, 2012 at 11:55 am
Good Job MCS and Kabwili.I would like to appeal to you teachers to be patient because your time is coming.
ntaulu chips
January 26, 2012 at 12:04 pm
good development hope it will be 100% for all civil servants…
Zed
January 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm
May the Health workers now become serious en stop those ****** moods of theirs ,u would imagine u go to the clinic in pain en all u get are cold shoulders wake up or we shall protest
Snr.citizen
January 26, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Congratulations ba health take care of us, very soon we shall fill the hospitals cos of hunger. Mulimbe ku kumba manda bane cos ni survival of the fittest.
Civil Servant
January 26, 2012 at 12:38 pm
IT’S TIME WE HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT THE CIVIL SERVICE’S CONDITIONS OF SERVICE. BA KAMBWILI AND GOVT. SHOULD NOT CONCENTRATE ON POLICING THE PRIVATE SECTOR. LET HIM ADDRESS THE PLANT IN HIS OWN EYE. “THE CIVIL SERVICE” WHERE GRADUATES GET 2,000,000. 100% WILL BE 4,000,000. NOT GOOD ENOUGH, MAYBE 300% LIKE CHIEFS WILL BE THE LITTLE MOST ACCEPTABLE.
dr dre
January 26, 2012 at 12:39 pm
im just from theatre, im going back 4 more now coz im motivated.
concerned health worker
January 26, 2012 at 12:43 pm
hope we are not going back to unip government,am a HEALTH worker but am worried coz 100percent is too much leats be realist and careful
CBU
January 26, 2012 at 12:48 pm
AM ALSO WORRIED I WORK AT KITWE CENTRAL HOSPITAL I DID BIO-MED,100PERCENT IS TOO MUCH
zeck78
January 26, 2012 at 12:50 pm
economics my foot,most of the so called economics get as much as over k50m monthly and they do’nt say it will bring inflation.100% sounds massive but the reality is that the 100% will just translate to maybe a k2m as take home and with some workers especially support staff this wil come to about between k800,000 and k1,500,000 take home.so all in all the move is good to bring some relief to our health workers.Forget about the inflation comment from some economics because if they are to talk about inflation,the should first start by cuting their salaries….
Woviziba
January 26, 2012 at 12:54 pm
That’s not the way to go about it. They are Civil Servants so other Civil servants will protest. Govt will be forced to increase their salaries and inflation will rise. The Health professionals’ predicament needs some intelligent solutions not such unthought out firefighting
Nomba ninshi
January 26, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Guys guys…..lets beyond our noses and offer postive advise/criticism to our leaders for th gud of our country.100% salary increament may sound gud for nw…..bt any1 who has bn to sku and had come accros th basic definition of inlation which is ‘too much money chasing few goods’ wil agree with me that this move is likely to trigger inflation coz traders wud also want ths to trickle down and th only they can achiv ths is by increases th PRICES of various goods especially food and other necesities….
Nomba ninshi
January 26, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Guys guys…..lets c beyond our noses and offer postive advise/criticism to our leaders for th gud of our country.100% salary increament may sound gud for nw…..bt any1 who has bn to sku and had come accros th basic definition of inlation which is ‘too much money chasing few goods’ wil agree with me that this move is likely to trigger inflation coz traders wud also want ths to trickle down and th only they can achiv ths is by increases th PRICES of various goods especially food and other necesities….
Umutokofyopo
January 26, 2012 at 1:13 pm
@zeck78,yo lack of analytical skils and levels of ignorance are quiet alarming.pliz do us a favour and stop commenting on things u dnt understand.
economic madness
January 26, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Only economics illiterate can rejoice at ARBITRARY 100% salary increase because:
1) that will push prices upwards most likely by 100%,ie INFLATION,that will invalidate the salary increase! Printing money does NOT create wealth but leads to destitution!!See recent history of Zimbabwe and 1930s Germany where one need(ed) 1 BILLION Anode to buy a loaf of bread!!
2) will increase national debt since govt can NOT print money out of toilet rolls!!
3) will increase pensions liabilities for FUTURE GOVTS that will STRUGGLE to honour them!!
Please think before posting comments that illustrate your economics naivety!!
ALIBUZWI ALIBUZWI JR
January 26, 2012 at 1:19 pm
thats gud develpment ba commander in chief,more money in peoples pockets for sure
economic madness
January 26, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Something else,while the work of healthcare providers (and other civil servants) is much appreciated and vital to society,it is worth remembering that civil servants contribute ZERO taxes for the treasury because they draw their salaries from it!!
Put it this way,this salary increase means the govt will have to do a combination or ALL of the following:
(a) cut some public services
(b) borrow from abroad
(c) increase taxes on the PRIVATE sector
Now imagine a self-employed market trader -TAX PAYER- with modest standards of living seeing his/her taxes go through the roof to pay for the Doctor’s or nurse’s increased salaries while they already have better standard of living than the market trader!!
Now consider ALL public workers getting similar salary increases and you’ll observe how the Govt will either run of money or print it Zimbabwe style!!!