Government urged to expedite health workers recruitment
GOVERNMENT must expedite the 5000 health workers recruitment exercise which include over 400 doctors, the unemployed doctors have said.
Speaking to the Daily Nation on behalf of other health care workers, former CBU school of medicine student union president Wallace Mumba however commended Government on the pronouncement that more health workers would be employed.
Mr Mumba said Government's efforts to increase the workforce in the health sector were welcome.
He was speaking in an interview in Kitwe yesterday.
"The country is faced with a critical shortage of health workers which has further exacerbated since the attack of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
"The pandemic has caused mayhem world wide with negative impact across various sectors," he said.
Mr Mumba stated that as a result of the rising incidences of the Covid-19 cases, the health sector had been the most overwhelmed because healthcare personnel from various disciplines were in the forefront trying global disease.
He observed that through combined efforts among health workers within the healthcare system coupled with a multi-sectoral mitigative approach, there was confidence that the fight against the pandemic would be won.
Mr Mumba said the it was to fight the the desire of new doctors to be part of the fight and contribute towards quality provision of health service to the population.
He added that it was important to realise that the health system was inter-disciplinery that required health personnel from various specialities to work together in order to improve quality health service delivery.
"The exercise will also reduce the doctor-population ratio as the country strived to meet the world health organisation recommended of 1:1000.
"As new doctors, we are ready to work and become integral elements of the healthcare system," he said.
Mr Mumba said it would be motivating that the new doctors were employed as quickly as possible while they had the morale to put their acquired skills into good practice.