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SATA Re-Aligns Ministries Again ‘Health Workers Moved To Community Development’
Republican President Micheal Sata has re-aligned government Ministries again.
Government has announced the re-alignment of portfolio function of the ministries of health and community development, mother and child health.
Under the re-alignment, health posts, health centre’s, district hospitals and district medical offices will fall under the ministry of community development, mother and child health which will be in charge of community mobilization, health promotion, prevention and curative services.
The ministry will also create provincial community medical offices to deal with coordinating service delivery at district level.
The ministry of health will therefore be responsible for the overall health policy and provision of healthcare at secondary and tertiary levels including the setting of standards and performance audits.
The training of health workers, research and development, disease surveillance and the specialist referral services will also continue being implemented under the ministry of health.
Secretary to the Cabinet, Roland Msiska disclosed this during the extraordinary sectoral advisory group meeting for the ministry of community development, mother and child health and the ministry of health in Lusaka this morning.
Dr. Msiska says the re-alignment of the two ministries will improve efficiency in the health sector by offering integrated services to the community and will therefore reduce morbidity and mortality among the general public.
And speaking at a media briefing shortly after the extra ordinary meeting, health minister Joseph Kasonde and his community development, mother and child health counterpart Joseph Katema said the move is in line with the PF government’s intentions to implement functional and organizational reforms in the health sector with the overall strategy of increasing efficiency and improving standards in service delivery.
In a joint statement read out by community development minister Joseph Katema, the two ministers stated that the refocusing of the provision of specialized health care services at tertiary level will reduce on the number of patients referred for treatment abroad.
Dr. Katema further disclosed that the implementation process of realigned functions is estimated to cost 1.4 trillion kwacha and that funds have been budgeted for in the 2013 national budget.
Re-alignment of Ministries continues, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Community Developement re-arranged.
District Hospitals and Health personnel training institutions have been moved from Ministry of Health to Community Developement.
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More beer-shipwe shipwe
December 3, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Creations and recreations, alignmens and re-alignments, swearing-ins and decrees!is tht why we changed govt?so l/stone sku on nursing housed at l/stone general hospital will nw be under community fimo fimo while the hospital will remain under MOH.problem evn the technocrats hav all become dummies
Zebige
December 3, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Yaba.There we go again.Ndeloleshafye.
Thief Justice Lom-bay Chibe-sir-koon-duhh
December 3, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Refrain from fixing unbroken thiings Mr I Am The Boss
Chizzle The God
December 3, 2012 at 1:44 pm
that pic of mr sata is classic..its like he saying “damn! What tha phaq is dat smeeell”…lol!
taliban
December 3, 2012 at 1:46 pm
atase..is that what you were voted for ..?nonsense..
kandolo nikunyansi
December 3, 2012 at 2:07 pm
yebo badala, twalumba maningi komundipa mebo chelston district as a DC
T
December 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Fool
Solwezi Mabanga
December 3, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Can someone tell me how many districts and minstries we have in Zambia. My school going boy is having diffcuities in keeping up with current affrairs of Zambia
chazya
December 3, 2012 at 2:20 pm
A BIT OF SOME SENSE IN THE DELIVERY OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM,MORE SO THAT THE DISTRICT HEALTH CARE WAS ALREADY IN THE HANDS OF COUNCIL IF ANYONE DID NOT KNOW.E.G,LUDHMB!
MOJO
December 3, 2012 at 3:44 pm
@chazya.Uli wa bufi,when did district hospitals fall under the district council,let him just take the child development to gender and merge community and health and then streamline the departments.
Mutototo 2
December 3, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Now i can see that old age has finally caught up with Mr Sata, how can he re-align such a sensitive ministry. That wasn’t necessary, not at all!
Amalibu yakuilombela
December 3, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Seleni tubombeko
Mpangula Mputyu
December 3, 2012 at 2:47 pm
Maiko Zulu sanga a song
” Mad President”.
I doidnt know it shall come to pass within OUR Life span.
Ku la Nwafye!
December 3, 2012 at 2:58 pm
PIPO the man has just brought back CBOH which was seen not to be relevant by some chaps in power then eg Minister of ubumi en the respect PS then!
Chosen
December 3, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Lelo! Ififi twalukufwaya.pano yabipa! Mama nembwa!
OS
December 3, 2012 at 3:17 pm
What about keeping quiet if you have no clew. Go mudala. Ukufipasanganya elyo nokwamba ukufipanga bwino. As long as these changes are ment for greater benifits go ahead batata!
atm
December 3, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Pipo in the medical field help us understand this. Is it to our advantage as Zambians? Is it going to work well? I have no comment. Doctors pliz help.
Chella
December 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm
guess work continues. its funny. y boast of experience in politics over others? senseles
Chibesa
December 3, 2012 at 4:28 pm
yaba! that’s all he knows!!!!! moving things around!!!
dotcom
December 3, 2012 at 4:52 pm
1.4 trillion to re~align two Ministries,wow. I guess if that much is given to ministry of health, service delivery wud definately improve!
Josaia Tongogara
December 3, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Ifyo cali pa cindekelo, efyo caba na nomba, efyo cakukulaba pe Ameni.
Josaia Tongogara
December 3, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Ifyo cali pa cindekelo, efyo caba na nomba, efyo cakulaba pe Ameni.
chazya
December 3, 2012 at 5:59 pm
@ Ba MOJO,you have never seen a Lusaka District Health Management Team under the Local Authority sure?go pa Civic Center.
gilbert
December 3, 2012 at 6:01 pm
this so called president has no clue.
UMU VELE VELE
December 3, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Sata i think dobo wabaile akale ichili ileshunguluka mumutwe
Hello
December 3, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Ugly man!
kolwe
December 3, 2012 at 6:43 pm
that is serious, communiy development will procure medicines, right? health ministry will train people, right? community will write to health, giving them inputs for staff, then procure medicines, right? health staff will be transferred to communityv right? and who will adivse health on training needs if many people will go to community?
who made this terrible decision? confusion at its worst.
collns
December 3, 2012 at 6:59 pm
am confused with such mistake and wonder why should we have such re-alignment at this time when we are busy looking at the budget
OS
December 3, 2012 at 7:23 pm
When u are ignorant about certain issues,just shut up! Go,go mukalamba(HE. MCS) fyalishalilafimo ifibena Zambia.Just watch and see how the man makes the moves. Come 2016 it’ll b 100-0 in favour of pf. l am liking it.
top kat
December 3, 2012 at 7:51 pm
why spend 1.4trillion on realignments wen there more pressing issues like drug shortages obsolete medical equipment.who is advising ths man?tackle the real issues old man 2016 is jus around the corner and i still gat my voters card.jus in case u characters thot we threw away the voters cards after we put u in office.think again!!!!!!!!
Shibobo
December 3, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Look at it from this angle. community development and health both have a common factor;people.therefore issues of sensitisation and mobilisation of community intervention will be very effective,ok?
Denmark
December 3, 2012 at 8:46 pm
My son failed the exam on current affair, we did not have power due to load shedding. Those who had power were up date with current affairs. The first question was on number of district in Zambia followed by re-alignment of provinces and ministry. This is serious
MANLOOK
December 3, 2012 at 9:39 pm
dis hs taken long,thx to the president,kindly decentralised it to districts and sub centres so that come 2013 all the officers are aquented with the new system/structure.
zagaze
December 3, 2012 at 11:18 pm
ba tumfweko,lets hear you write pali winter kabimbas behaviour kaili. we want to see how the pf cadres will answer or respond to such behaviour. kaili the rest of us have stopped thinking,we cant analyse only pf people can do it for us. tell us why he did that so that i can have an answer should someone ask me pa facebook
Uncle
December 3, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Kekekekekekeke there’s some funny comments here lol how can so many people think one guy is mad kekekekekekekekeelekel
mk
December 4, 2012 at 6:07 am
Surely what experiments are these? At a time when we should be saving our meagre resources, we have a leader who doesn’t know whether to turn a bermuda into a pair of trousers or a pair of trousers into a bermuda or indeed buy a new pair of trousers.
monkey eater
December 4, 2012 at 7:05 am
Think twice…
Tako li nyenga
December 4, 2012 at 7:27 am
Our president is running mad.
PF DIE HARD
December 4, 2012 at 8:32 am
bamdala ba Sata muli imbwa.u r mad.Health and community.align state house wth kamanga compound
P3T3R
December 4, 2012 at 9:10 am
Many Thanks my president. The President has the Heart to Develop this country and am 100% he will deliver.Many Thanks once more
Mwango
December 4, 2012 at 9:13 am
P3T3R whats your email address.
umuZambian
December 4, 2012 at 9:19 am
maybe His nephew did SOCIAL WORK and there is no employment…
kazeze
December 4, 2012 at 10:22 am
A bull in a china shop!!!
njota man
December 4, 2012 at 10:54 am
Umufyashi wachabe.. alefipasanganya. elo talati… next year ni ministry of mines under ministry of agriculture nangu foreign affairs since mulasangwa tumwenye sana.
Mupeta
December 4, 2012 at 11:42 am
Teks one who understands policy 2coment so if u dnt knw anything abt policy en hw govt works kip quet mwalasebana.liv such 2technocrats
Let them explain
GMT
December 4, 2012 at 11:43 am
I couldnt help but notice that even WHO officials were equally confused yesteday as minister katema struggled to explain the restructuring at the ministry of health. Even the minister himself couldnt show that he understood wat he was saying! example of pure madness!
SUMWA
December 4, 2012 at 12:49 pm
This sata is a satanist, one thing he does not agree with himself is he is not educated at all, he is a opportunist chapwa, nomba nachimushupa,twalamona nomba.Let us wait and see. The streets are full of venders, no cleaniliness at all.
Kingizo
December 4, 2012 at 1:44 pm
DECENTRALIZATION is there in PF Manifesto and they campaigned heavily on that.Today I heard Nerves Mumba making noise on the creation of district,that’s lack of logic.Read the PF Manifesto before you make noise.What the big man is trying to do is bringing health care as close as possible to the people.Sick people are not found at ministry of health but the community
P3T3R
December 4, 2012 at 1:51 pm
@ SUMWA Boss Boss insulting our president will cost u. Mind your comment. i will not seat back and watch u insult the president. The President is more educated than u think.am warning you my bro my contact number is 0977114073
P3T3R
December 4, 2012 at 1:54 pm
@ Kingizo. Tell them that’s 100%
Mali
December 4, 2012 at 3:28 pm
The face looks like a King of the Jungle for sure, a man with a rare smile, yes he is ruling with ten commandments for sure, the face looks like King Cobra without a miss, Our President, please go round the town centres and see the mess around them, Luck, no rains, u were going to lose all your voters, they are trading in dirty, Mudala iwe kwena, katwishi, u have boiling brains, u need doubles of PANANDOS. Mulekuta kwena, umubili wabwela sure. Kanshi yali ni Nsala, bushe Kanshi state taifolesha impiya ishingi, Kazeba nao naina no kusamba.