Masala Clinic: screening room wanted
MASALA Clinic in Ndola needs more screening rooms to improve service delivery, acting in charge at the clinic Frazer Malumbe has said.
Mr Malumbe was speaking when Kabushi Member of Parliament Bowman Lusambo visited the facility to donate a computer and interact workers at health facilities in the constituency.
Mr Malumbe said the clinic currently had two screening rooms which were being used by three clinical officers.
He said the situation was not ideal for patients’ privacy because two clinical officers would use one room for screening.
The staff were overwhelmed as they catered for over 49, 000 people.
Mr Malumbe said the area had six other clinics which closed at 16 00hrs, leaving Masala clinic the only 24 hours operating facility in the area.
He appealed to Mr Lusambo to help the clinic with an ambulance that would transport patients to Ndola Teaching Hospital for complicated cases.
And speaking at the clinic, Mr Lusambo acknowledged that the number of patients visiting the facility were on the higher side.
Mr Lusambo said he was pushing to have a mini hospital, and had already engaged the Ministry of Health on the matter.
He said the ministry was agreeable because the population in Kabushi constituency had grown.
Mr Lusambo said the mini hospital would help decongest the Ndola Teaching Hospital as well as the clinic which had 23 nurses, one resident doctor and three clinical officers.