Health facilities upgrade commendable – Kapyanga
By NATION REPORTER THE improvement of the health sector is proof of President Lungu’s commitment to making Zambia a healthy nation, PF nation youth executive committee member Francis Kapyanga has said
Mr Kapyanga said in a statement yesterday that the on-going health infrastructure development and expansion in the country demonstrated President Lungu’s commitment to improving the health care system of the country and was not only commendable but a blessing to Zambians.
‘The on-going health infrastructure portfolio development and expansion in our country bears open and clearly His Excellency the President Mr Edgar Chagwa Lungu and the Pro poor Patriotic Front government's desirous commitment to improving the health care system of the country and is not only commendable but a blessing to Zambians too, ’’Mr Kapyanga said.
He said the country was witnessing massive health infrastructure development such as completion of Isoka District Hospital and expansion of Chinsali General Hospital with a nursing school, mental and paediatric hospitals and first level health care services closer to the people of Muchinga Province who access most of such services outside the province at a huge cost.
‘’This is in addition to the construction of 650 plus health posts across the country, the construction of a specialised hospital in Chongwe, Bangweulu specialised hospital in Northern Province, expansion and upgrading of Levy into a University Teaching Hospital, upgrading of Chilenje, Mandevu and Chipata clinics into level one hospitals in Lusaka, construction of district hospitals across the country and the equipping of these facilities with state of the art facilities such as MRI, CT Scan, X-ray, ECHO machines, among others,’’he said.
Mr Kapyanga, who is also PF Muchinga Province youth coordinator said the country could now boast of having access to quality health care within a shortest distance to enhanced access to quality health.
He said various achievements by the PF Government in the health sector confirmed President Lungu's vision to have health services closer to people so that they did not cover long distances to access health care.