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Woman Gives Birth in A Car As Nurses Refuse to Attend To Her
A Woman of Kitwe‘s Ndeke Village Township yesterday delivered outside Kitwe Central Hospital (KCH) in her husband’s vehicle due to alleged negligence by medical staff at the health facility.
It is believed that the woman delivered around 06:00 hours after nurses at the hospital allegedly refused to attend to her.
The husband left his wife in his vehicle and went upstairs to plead with the nurses to attend to her but his efforts were in vain.
Kitwe District Commissioner (DC) Elias Kamanga said was unacceptable for a women deliver outside a hospital when nurses were there to do their job.
Mr. Kamanga said it was sad that the incident happened outside a hospital in full view of the passers-by.
He said he was informed of the incident just after 06:00 hours by Chingola Mayor Cuthbert Kalebaila who was going to the hospital to see his relative and found the woman giving birth.
“I have spoken directly to the Kitwe Central Hospital management to get to the root cause of this because I am not going to tolerate such behavior. We want to carry out thorough investigations. Nurses who were involved must be penalised,” Mr Kamanga said.
He said government was making health facilities and services available to the people but unfortunately the medical personnel were not co-operating.
-Times Of Zambia
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Hereward the wake {in the isle of Ely}
March 27, 2013 at 10:29 am
The health personel are stil disappointing us. This is unacceptable.
Wise ruler
March 27, 2013 at 10:38 am
Very embarrassing , they should just pay 4 there wrong doing , moreover its there fellow woman . Just fire the idiots
Ba Lups
March 27, 2013 at 10:41 am
Dis is an indirect strike-thz pipo need salary increments.but whateva da case,incident wz very un4tnt and all thoz who neglected their duty shud face disciplinary measures.
MICKEY MOUSE
March 27, 2013 at 11:12 am
Im ok with the last part of yr comment but yr first is just not right.WHAT HAS A NEW BORN INNOCENT BABY WHO DIDNT ASK TO COME IN THIS WORLD GOT TO DO WITH SALARY INCREMENTS.Total negligence and risk of lives of both mother and child.
kangala
March 27, 2013 at 10:50 am
its disappointing to ve such behaviors by our nurses. infact who ever denied her access to medical care shud be delt with. fyabupuba balecita. atase
Brian
March 27, 2013 at 11:11 am
And when nurses are beaten pipo should complain..Imagine if that woman died in labour……
enos_Mwale
March 28, 2013 at 8:26 am
Beating has never been the solution anywhere. It is failure to reason and total madness that leads people to do such
MARIA
March 27, 2013 at 11:19 am
TYPICAL BEHAVIOUR OF NURSING STAFF THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.INNOCENT LIVES WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST JUST IN FRONT OF A MEDICAL FACILITY.NURSING CAREER IS NOT JUST A JOB,ITS A CALLING AND ONE MUST HAVE THE HEART TO DO THE TEDIOUS JOB.
ngombe ilede
March 27, 2013 at 11:28 am
Old frastrated so called zambian nurses.CRUCIFY THEM and they will see what it is to have a job when they are jobless.CRUCIFY THEM,CRUCIFY THEM,two lives would have been lost for no good reason!
KUNDA MULILE
March 27, 2013 at 11:40 am
IT IS QUITE UNFORTUNATE THAT THIS HAPPENED WITHIN THE WALLS OF A FACILITY. HOWEVER, I WISH TO MAKE A COMMENT.YOU MUST REALISE THAT CURRENTLY OUR NURSES ARE WORKING UNDER VERY DIFFICULTY CONDITIONS.NURSES ARE RECEPTIONISTS,PORTERS,SOCIAL WORKERS,DOCTORS’SECRETARIES,RUNNERS, TRANSLATORS ETC ETC. LEAVE NURSES TO DO THE JOB THEY ARE TRAINED TO DO THEN THINGS MAY IMPROVE BUT AS LONG AS THEY ACCEPT TO BE TREATED AS DOCTORS’ HANDMAINDS SUCH OCCURENCES WILL CONTINUE.
enos_Mwale
March 28, 2013 at 8:30 am
It seems you do not know your priorities. If I were you I would have immediately left to go and attend to that patient/client. The health profession should be rid of all those who went there because they had nothing to do in life and becoming a nurse was the last resort
mk
March 27, 2013 at 11:49 am
Management at KCH should be taken to task over this matter. These are the people who want to bring down our GOVT by failing to do obvious things,surely how can such a big Hospital be this careless, the Executive Director at KCH needs to explain to the whole country how such a thing ocurred right at the entrance of a big hospital. It is unbelievable, how we have just become heartless, our mother was left to die, shame to the management at KCH. The Minister of Health should seriously consider removing the Executive Director at KCH, this man has over stayed and in the process he has become big headed to the extent where even ordinary nurses who should be life savers are now becoming murderers,this is more than murder. Thank God, our Mother and beloved baby have pulled through!
Icipondo
March 27, 2013 at 11:51 am
Alot of people and well qualified with the passion for the job are out there looking for employment and then those idiots of nurses do not want to do their jobs..Please fire them!!!We want serious people to work for mother Zambia…
shane
March 27, 2013 at 12:07 pm
kitwe has issues…ma
mcdmch
March 27, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Labour doesn’t start and there and then you deliver labour takes time. When contractions start go to the hospital fast moreover nurses and midwives are not allowed to deliver services outside the hospital premises. Labour is not acute! Antenatally preg women are told to go to nearest health centre the moment contractions start, staying home when contractions start leads to such situations. Delivering in an ambulance we are taught not any other. corolla NO!
Mpoh
March 27, 2013 at 12:10 pm
This has got nothing to do wth conditions of work.every yr they increase their salaries and moreover they r nt the only government workers in ths country.many poor zambians are jobless wo every single day r looking 4employment and here comes these parthetic and heartless nurses..pliz cnt these nurses be fired and gve jobs to others wo deserve them!why do they sign up 4things they have no passion 4?and ts rily shameful dat these female nurses bcoz they dnt qualify to be kod women were doing this to a fellow woman.u want women to stop conceiving bcoz of lack of humanitarian at hospitals.pliz im appealing to relevant authorities to tek ths mata seriously otherwise some of u wont get yo pension.
concerned citizen
March 27, 2013 at 12:17 pm
While we may pile up the blame on the nurses/medical staff on duty, we should be considerate that the same medical staff are working under very difficult conditions especially in regard to staffing levels(shortages),and looking at the televised picture, I do not know if what the nurse was trying to do, the cleaning of the floor was also part of the nursing duty; so as the authorities and general community will be looking into this case, bear with the nurses/medical staff in terms of pressure of work and the number of patients that they are made to attend to at a time.
BMR
March 27, 2013 at 12:24 pm
Sad develooment. They should deal with the personnel who refused to attend to her.
chanda chimbwi III
March 27, 2013 at 12:40 pm
Medical personnel are behaving like our footballers.Too much money.
ck
March 27, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Stern Disciplnary action must be taken against these useful idiots.
sad face
March 27, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Kufi raping’a fye fima nurses Ifya tumpa!!!! Said the big chicken..
JO BOY MNT
March 27, 2013 at 12:54 pm
“Takuli ukubalundilako as announced they should be desciplined” let’s BOOK them.
CHAMA
March 27, 2013 at 12:57 pm
It was really sad to see it on TV….I conglatulate the man for having a good heart,otherwise if such happened to me awe nganaliba nyesha.
(beaten)
Muntumukulu
March 27, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Echo bafiponwena fi ‘NASI’ Atase ukutumpa. fitanfyeni incito pantu mailo fikalatamba imwe ninshi muleshikila.
HEADMAN
March 27, 2013 at 2:01 pm
The nurses who refused to attend to the woman who delivered from outside KCH should be punished as they are playing on matters relating to the health of human being.This reminds me of a clinical officer( lady)of ST fRANCIS HOSPITAL who refused to certify a BID body which the police had taken for postmortem examinations saying she was fade up of the BIDS( brought In Dead).She only did that after officers threatened to see the DC- Katete.
pretty princess
March 27, 2013 at 2:10 pm
so sad!!!
rapstil
March 27, 2013 at 2:29 pm
thez nurses surprise me, dnt they give birth themselves? They knw its a painful experience yet they r actin lyk tis. Fire them.
kEVIN MVULA
March 27, 2013 at 3:04 pm
thats vry sad mwandi.
Wanu Ngwee
March 27, 2013 at 3:34 pm
This is not just negligence but lawlessness. And the causes are deeprooted in our moral fibre where even leaders disregard the law. It has nothing to do with salaries. These people are supposed to be bound by both their conscience and professional ethics TO SAVE LIVES and there can be no excuse for doing otherwise. If you investigate this deeply you’ll discover the general lack of commitment to duty, rotten work culture and lawlessness by almost EVERYONE EMPLOYED AT THIS INSTITUTION. And there’s so much filth they all know about each other – so bad that NO ONE CAN DISCIPLINE THE OTHER…. SAD! CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY!
NACHIMBUSA
March 27, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Umfweni mwe buteko mwilatilafye ati will be penalised ngapapite nshita mukalabeko. Uyu mulandu ndeukonka mpaka neko ukapwila ngatakwakabe any action mukamona efyo cikaba. Naleka pantu batila iibuluma tailya.
Kapaso wakwisano!
March 27, 2013 at 4:30 pm
Ayeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeyeylelelelelelelele nachubunsa asosa,you deserve utupundu ayelelelelelelelelelele
BASHI PAUL
March 27, 2013 at 4:56 pm
THE ROOT CAUSE TO ALL THESE, IS CORRUPTION,THEY SHUD NOT FOOL PIPO OF ZAMBIA,THEY WONT EVEN PERNALIZE ANYONE,BCOZ IN GOVT THEY JUST RECRUIT THEIR RELATIVES ESPECIALLY IN NURSING,SO SHUT UP YOUR MOUTH,NONSENSE!
the good old days
March 27, 2013 at 6:06 pm
No passion for the job at all. silly ****** nurses. just fire the IDIOTS ASAP.
CNP-4U
March 27, 2013 at 6:16 pm
under pf..such nonsense is likely to increase..
melvin
March 27, 2013 at 9:36 pm
this is wat p.f shuld consetrat nt abt r.b and his sons,pliz pliz we voterd for u 2 improve the welfaer of the pipo,nt every day r.b r.b,thats mokery we need 2 see sum devlopments.
observer
March 27, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Very unfortunate incident indeed. Could it be a wake up call to women to go to health facilities in good time and not make it an emergency knowing the attitude of our health workers. Coz something tells me this woman could hv even delivered on the way to the hospital. If Investigations review negligence on the nurses, they should be dealt with. But if it was too late for them to carry her inside the hospital, if it was safer to deliver n the car as labour was pa last…..who is too blame?
Pili
March 27, 2013 at 11:53 pm
It is not surprising,that is the nature of most of zambians!!!Negligence,inefficiency,lazy!
ben 2020
March 28, 2013 at 4:47 am
These nurses it seams they are not scared of any one, they are bosses on their on.
Pipo
March 28, 2013 at 6:45 am
We have only seen the car the dc and the public .interview the mother also then u can say all the rubbish
elias mwale
March 28, 2013 at 8:19 am
blaming nurses to me is not just fair. Get the true story from the affected family and let them be sincere. probably they started off late for hospital and we want to put it all on nurses.
Kopekaya
March 28, 2013 at 8:26 am
I want to agree with MCDMCH and PIPO thinking,but we need to ask ourselves the following questions.
1. is this the first preganance that she failed to know that she was due for labour?
2. Did u know that it takes long for one to deliver especially when contraction of muscles start, and just pain itself is a better sign that she is about to deliver.
3. Was kitwe Central Hopsital the nearest health facility.
4. where was she going for Her antenantal check ups, i belive she was told the day when she was expected to deliver.
5. lets find out from the woman her self, lets not talk too much, its very unfair to say something before getting the full story.
shimwana
March 28, 2013 at 8:43 am
let them do secreterial
Blessed
March 28, 2013 at 8:46 am
bash a bugger.those nurses are evil
naba
March 28, 2013 at 11:06 am
Zambian nurses you are disgrace to the country. Why did you join nursing? You are fit to be in the Mali rebel army. May these nurses please be fired. Shame on all you cruel nurses and yet every Sunday you are number one at Church. God is not blind you will pay for this. Stop and repent
nasosa
March 28, 2013 at 1:46 pm
Mcdmch, do not justify the situation by saying once one labour then they should go to hospital. There are so many circumstances, maybe she did not have transport readily at hand and coming to what you are saying that you cannot deliver a baby in the car, that is rubbish, if you are a qualified nurse, you can deliver a baby anywhere after all you are saving a life, not taking away one! After all that’s why there is the word emergency!
raphael ngosa
March 29, 2013 at 11:40 am
This couple has shamed banaFimbusa and the Ministry of Health. Iam sure the woman really wanted to deliver her baby at a big hospital. Query the couple first for maladoit planning. The hospital authorities must also be reminded of their core responsibility of providing health care to all including erring couples like Mr and Mrs Kambole of Ndeke.. Lesson learnt the hardway. Learn to own up all decisions you make whether good or bad because you make them alone without consulting anyone.