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PF Cadres Harangue Kaoma Hospital Workers
PF cadres on Tuesday condemned Kaoma district hospital health workers for allegedly harassing and mistreating patients.
Kaoma district PF political secretary Chingi Kabindama, who led a team of twenty PF cadres, said his office had received numerous reports of health workers harassing patients at the hospital.
He complained that the continuous harassment of patients was making the ruling party unpopular in the district.
Kabindama said health workers in Kaoma should remove the “hangovers from the MMD and realise that it was the PF now in power”.
He warned that failure to change would leave the party with no option but to recommend the workers’ dismissal from the civil service.
Kabindama requested patients admitted to the hospital to directly report workers harassing them to the PF district office for punitive action to be taken.
He said the workers had ignored their code of conduct because of working in rural districts where they could not be seriously monitored.
Kabindama also said the hospital management had failed to give clear answers to why it had taken so long to track down thieves that stole drugs worth K5,000 from the institution’s pharmacy early this year.
He said civil servants in the district were not diligently executing their duties and that they were taking advantage of the poor people, a situation that he said was making the party not to be felt at the grassroots level.
Kabindama also appealed to the government to consider engaging expatriate doctors to work in rural hospitals.
And Kaoma district youth chairperson, Du Mbandu, appealed to the Ministry of Health to urgently send food rations to Kaoma district hospital as patients had so far gone for three days without food.
But district community medical officer Dr Jacob Sakala told Kaoma district commissioner, Joster Manjolo, that he would soon hold a meeting with the hospital management to discuss matters raised by the cadres so that issues of workers’ attitudes could be addressed.
And on food, Dr Sakala said his office had received enough funding and patients would be receiving meals regularly.
He said patients were not having regular meals because of inadequate funding in the last quarter exacerbated by debts which the institution incurred.
Dr Sakala said the food crisis at the district hospital would come to an end since all the debts had been cleared.
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wisdom
May 1, 2014 at 4:39 pm
The working culture of most government employees is extremly bad! The root of this culture starts from how they got grade 12 certificate to geting employment. The sadest part of it is that these same pipo are the first to receive salaries and complain when the pay delays. How do we develope with the culture of only good at receiving not working. we shud feel ashamed and change becoz we work to serv our own relatives
obzeva
May 1, 2014 at 6:02 pm
The atitude of govt workers eminated from the times of UNIP where everything was for free,people did not work everything was ‘pambale’.It will take time to change because if one is observant it is moving from one genre to another.only work,work,work will make this country prosper.
zoot
May 1, 2014 at 6:19 pm
Systems in govt only monitor presence of staff and not the quality of service delivery. If staff got paid according to reviews of clients things would be different. Even more so if they could be fired for negative annual reviews.
Messenger
May 2, 2014 at 12:15 am
Prophecies, signs and wonders and all manner of divine intervention are the expectations of modern church goers who seek anointed pastors to fulfill such demands. The level of deceit, fraud and falsehood to bring continuous supply to these enormous demands is not just incredible but totally unbelievable. Fraudsters and criminals in operation as religious leaders.
Isaac
May 2, 2014 at 9:14 am
The behavior of civil some servants coerces the party in power to intervene. For example, shouting at the sick pipo is not an interest of general populace.