SUPPORT MATERNAL HEALTH, CHIEFS ADVISED
GOVERNMENT has called on traditional leaders in North- Western Province to help change negative cultural and traditional practices towards reproductive, maternal, child and adolescent health services.
North-western Province Permanent Secretary, Willies Mangimela said the support from traditional leaders would greatly contribute to the positive change among their subjects.
He said people should be responsive towards services being provided for new-born babies, adolescents, men and women in their chiefdoms.
Mr Mangimela said community maternal and neonatal deaths, teenage pregnancies and early marriages were among issues of public health concern which needed to be discussed with tra
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He said this in Mufumbwe during the opening of a two- day Chiefs Indaba organized.
The Ministry of Health with support from United National Population Fund (UNFPA) and JSI SAFE organised the workshop which was attended by 25 chiefs from the province.
Provincial Health Director, Charles Msiska, said the ministry was focusing on equity in the provision of health care services in its quest to achieve universe health coverage.
At the same function, Chieftainess Nyakulenga of the Lunda of Zambezi district acknowledged the importance of bringing traditional leaders together on improving health service provision in their chiefdoms.
Chieftainess Nyakulenga said such interactions should be extended district level to help gain support for the interventions from people at the grass root.