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Baby Dies On Queue At The Clinic
A three month old baby has died while the mother was waiting to be attended to at Chipata Clinic.
According to witnesses, the child’s mother had been waiting in the queue for hours.
The witnesses many of them mothers, told a ZNBC news crew that the child’s mother had been in the line from morning until after lunch when the baby died.
Some mothers complained that there had been no doctor at the children’s clinic from morning.
By the time the news crew got to the clinic, the baby’s body had been taken to the University Teaching Hospital.-UTH-
Medical personnel at the facility refused to talk to the news crew and Ministry of Health Spokesperson Dr Kamoto Mbewe said he had not yet received the report.
Dr Mbewe says he could only comment after receiving a report from the health facility.
Long queues have characterised government clinics following the removal of user fees.
Dr Mbewe on Friday said that the Ministry of Health would recruit more health personnel to deal with the increase in demand for health services.
ZNBC NEWS
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Hmmmm
March 18, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Iwe nikita i respect women waumfwa bt bcoz of amaule ngaiwe ba fitongo aba shafudwa thats y lm hurling insults and mind u whore lm a proud doctor u hv fosd me 2 kam out wantuka sana as tho the yrs i spent studyin wr in vain . so icho icinyo cobe ucisale cileke ukubwansaula amasele wi mbelesha ciwenoco nachi pepa nomba wankalifya umutima. Nikuloswela pa tufweko fulubeti lyobe.ileterate whore get a lyf.lm out mandingo …..haha
kondomu
March 18, 2012 at 8:51 pm
learn from such experiences u in the medical practitioers,the masses will be resorting to mob justice for your enefficiency.switch on!
mwisho kaps
March 18, 2012 at 8:52 pm
i’m not a nurse, but plse let us not blame these workers who are working under hard conditions. Nursing job banee is dificult. Jst imagine, managing PATIENTS. MHSRIP
wachitako bwino
March 18, 2012 at 8:57 pm
lets learn from such experiences u in the medical practitioers,the masses will be resorting to mob justice for your enefficiency.switch on!
Ketty
March 18, 2012 at 9:26 pm
Sad reading where are we going as a nation especially country men and women. I pity the woman who lost the baby in the queue trying to get help from our medical institution. Ala katube abantu and render help when we can. Obviously other mothers saw that the poor ladies child was very sick and not the next in line why not let her jumb the queue instead of puting the blame on the medical staff? Those nurses and doctors are understaffed. Please PF send more of our children for nursing and doctoring by reducing the school fees so that even children from low class can go for nursing too. PF l know you can do it!
100percent
March 18, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Thanx 100percent 2 for dt clarification.this week we r getin th last peanuts of the stinkin mmd changes(ngwe).iwe naine m sure we r one!NO 100percent SALARY INCREMENT MO DEATHS.AYA MA FACTS!!
fimoneni
March 18, 2012 at 10:22 pm
Ba Nikita fwaleni please. Ba male nurse icindikeni. A child has died & you take it as an opportunity to insult each other. U ain’t different from our own simple minded TRUE BANTUSTAN
tt
March 18, 2012 at 11:10 pm
lets respect health workers, wen they are on strike, we die like chickens & deliver from outside! & wen they r working, we insult like they r nothing!!, lets respect each other, atending 2 sick pipo is not easy. @ nikita, we wil c if nxt time you get pregnat you wil not seek medical atention. God bless Z.
oxmos
March 19, 2012 at 12:38 am
the most frustrating job is in the health sector…worse nursing because you see pipo who are vomiting,having diarrhoea,vagina bleeding, assault cases, road traffic cases,chronically ill patients,cancer patients,HIV cases and even patient in labour at the same time,and they may be found only two at a shift to dispace medicine to the sick and give education…and they are entitled to a tea break…. we need these angels you some of my fellow bloggers are insulting…lets demand for retenssion scheme for the health workers and not insult them
Namwi
March 19, 2012 at 8:43 am
Nikita is very right, Now the lady or the man hauling insults ay Nikita must come down, he/she is a fool. It looks like this is a frustrated medical personnel, Mr. or Ms, Sorry change your field go to college so you can be like some of us in managerial positions running our own companies and stop harassing people who have a genuine opinion. Who ever you are, you are frustrated and cheap no wonder you can’t tell us your name Cheap frustrated medical cleaner shame on you. Viva Nikita.
Teleshi Kabemba
March 19, 2012 at 9:16 am
It is very sad to lose an innocent baby while trying to get medication from the clinic.The saddest thing is the spokesperson of Ministry of Health.There should be no politics involved when you are talking about those things.The point is the baby died in a queue.Why going round of the story itself.Do not fear of losing a job for speaking the trueth to the public.We know that health personnel are working under extreme pressure.
The other thing that i do not agree where they are saying the removal of user fees in clinics has lead to congestion in our health centres.That is not true.In short we are saying there was corrupt tendercies among the personnel to attend to a patient in “express manner”
Jerabo
March 19, 2012 at 9:38 am
Let us respect our medical officers,they work under very difficult conditions.Tou can not blem them for the long ques at the clinics.Come on lets be real.
Kenjibee
March 19, 2012 at 10:15 am
This a very sad situation , MHSRIP.Sorry to the mother. My advise to all Zambians , one day one of us can find him /herself in this situation. Let us be very observant when we are in such ques, check who amongst you have a patient that need urgency attention and just allow that person to go in front of you and be attened to as soon as posible.May God Bless all Loving Zambians.MHSRIP.
cool
March 19, 2012 at 11:04 am
to bad.to the mother and the family am sorry 4 the baby.
Mr Bean
March 19, 2012 at 11:45 am
Can Comrade 90DEZ send another commision of inquiry to probe the clinic manager and help that family.AND YOU CH GUY SCOT SAY SOMETHINGABOUT THIS NOT ISSUEING FUNNY REMARKS ON OUR MOTHERS FOOOOL
kate zhulu dali
March 19, 2012 at 2:22 pm
shame!
Mpanga ya sapa umwenda abakalabene
March 19, 2012 at 2:36 pm
MAY THE SOUL OF THE LITTLE ONE REST IN ETERNAL PEACE! Nikita & Whoever is in an insulting spree here, please lady and gentlemen, this is unacceptable and Jehovah God LOOKS AT BOTH OF YOU WITH CONTEMPT. APOLOGISE TO EACH OTHER & REPENT.
kokokoko
March 19, 2012 at 3:25 pm
life in zambia. in mmd women were giving birth in the queues now in pf babies are dying in queues.while sad indeed.
TruthHurts
March 19, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Some of the insults i have read here made me laugh a lot. If people had guns, they would kill each other. Well, “broadcast yourself”; am hopeful the anger has subsided a bit. But its sad when you lose a loved one in that manner. It happens espeially if the patient is taken to the hospital at a critical time. I lost my loved one in similar circumstances in 2006; have to look after 4 kids; and thats why I HATE MMD PASSIONATELY
NIKITA
March 19, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Im a doctor im a doctor amafi yeka yeka,you wish you were a doctor kwindi iwe.Where have you heard a doctor with such vulgar and foul abusive combonic behaviour?You must have forged your papers if you really are a doctor but i strongly believe youre a chi male nurse who is frastrated in a womans field of work.And if you read my first comment well you punk,i did not generalise in terms of health workers and my ordeal.To all bloggers ive offended i apologise but this punk was being really personal and i woke up on the wrong side yesterday.peace!!
mukombo
March 19, 2012 at 7:28 pm
why shuold we blame the staff,they are just human beings who work with blood,they cant devide them selves.the big question is where is the 90DAYS man of action? guys let us be realistic less paint our names black,why promise the impossibilities
mukombo
March 19, 2012 at 7:32 pm
oga president what is dis news we hear now?papa do somethingooooo,the universe is look up to you.igweeeeeeeeeee
liłłyo
March 20, 2012 at 7:50 am
the only pipo to blame are lecturers who fail students un_necesarily.. if the didnt this country would have had plenty doctors
Pyatapyata boys
March 20, 2012 at 10:08 am
Any properly trained mdical personnel should be able to acess the situation of the patients before anything elise. there is a tendency by medical practioners to ignore patients even when someone may seem not to afford to stand in a quee but would wait for their turn when they can be attended to which leads to death. Lets give priority to ailling patients regardless of the circumistances unlike waiting for the right moment. What a great lose to the family and the nation at large. Remember to do what you were called for if you sing so be it and if its about taking care of the sick please do. Do not go in to some of these professionals for the sake of making money when your heart is far from doing the right thing. Its the reason why many today have a Godly form but their acts denies what they potray.
Lets do good always and reduce this, remember we are talking of meeting the Millenium development goals by 2015 but where are we going with the current happenings?
serenje
March 20, 2012 at 1:34 pm
our women like going to clinic wen the condition is bad knowing very well that our clinics are ever full of patients.However sorry for the death of the child
Kabova
March 21, 2012 at 9:52 am
Am feeling pity for the mother of the baby. Comment reserved.
pepe
March 21, 2012 at 11:49 am
i think there is a problem with Lusaka health institutions,to seek for medical assistance from any any government clinic or hospitals is a problem.lusaka health practitioners are too much corrupt,nowonder pipo are dying on ques.its rare to find pipo on ques for a long period of time in other provinces for instance copperbelt.here in lusaka bafikala balitemwa ipiya,my father died from cancer which would been treated but they kept on postponing his treatment,mwema Nurses na ma doctores ba ku lusaka mulimatolefye bonse especially UTH.