Mwandi Township residents cry for clinic

RESIDENTS of Mwandi Township in Livingstone have called on the Livingstone City Council to consider using part of 2019 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to build a health post in the area.

The residents said that for a very long time, they have lived without a clinic.

One of the residents, Mr Manyando Lifasi, said that people in the township were relying on the Zambia Air Force clinic at the Airport and Mahatma Ghandi Urban clinic in Dambwa Central.

Mr Lifasi said that people were facing challenges accessing health services due to none availability of the clinic.

He said that people had been engaging the local authority to consider allocating funds towards the construction of the clinic.

The residents were speaking during a party mobilization meeting organized by Patriotic

Front (PF) aspiring candidates, Ikuka Muleta and Namakau Siyanga.

“We are asking the council to think about building a clinic here because people are only accessing health facilities from ZAF clinic or Dambwa Central. We want our own clinic.

“Our community is ready to help in anyway. We have the land that was left for a clinic and a police post but nothing is happening,” he said.

In responding to the concerns, Mr Ikuka Muleta advised the people of Mwandi to mobilize and make a proposal to the CDF committee to make a consideration towards the clinic.

Mr Muleta said that the CDF was available and its intended purpose was to improve the lives of the people.

He said that the money had nothing to do with political alignment of any kind.

And Ms Siyanga encouraged the people of Mwandi to support and work with the ruling party for them to see meaningful development.