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CHIMWEMWE MP PONDERS WORKING ON DILAPIDATE­D ROADS

COVID-19:

- By ROGERS KALERO

put some laterite on some of “So having toured some of them. the roads in the constituen­cy,

HE immediMr Banda was speakI understand the concerns of

ate solution to ing on Thursday during the motorists and we will see

the dilapidate­d the tour of the roads in how we can proceed to find

Steroids can help the sickest

state of roads in the constituen­cy which inan immediate solution to the

Chimwemwe constituen­cluded Chibungulu­bwe, challenge of dilapidate­d state

cy is to patch up some ugly Mpandafish­ala and the gravof roads in the constituen­cy.

potholes and grading some el roads in Chimwemwe east “As area MP, I think the

patients, studies show

of the gravel roads leading which needed urgent grading immediate solution to this

to farming areas whilst to ease the transporta­tion of challenge is to patch up the

waiting for the permanent people and goods to and from potholes whilst we wait for the

solution from the New dawn the area especially that it was permanent solution from the government, NTERNATION­AL Patriotic clinical Front an steroids agricultur­al for treatment area. of panew dawn government. I will (PF) trials Chimwemwe confirm the Member hope tients He said with as severe area or MP, critical he mobilise PATIENTS my personal resourcof Parliament that the cheap, (MP), widely Allen had Covid-19 decided to worldwide. take a tour But of es to patch up potholes while Banda, available has drugs said. can help sethe roads agency in the recommende­d constituen­cy for Steroids the grading like of dexamethat­he gravel

riously Mr Banda ill patients said he will survive. try to against appreciate giving the the concerns drugs of to roads, sone, we hydrocorti­sone will the grader from to The use World his personal Health resourcOrg­anithe patients many with motorists mild who disease. were the and local methylpred­nisolone authority,” Mr Banda es zation and is connection­s expected to release patch complainin­g The new about studies the dilapiincl­ude said. are often used by docup new potholes guidelines in various encouragin­g parts dated an analysis state of roads that pooled in the area data And tors during to tamp the down tour the of the of their the use. constituen­cy and also and from how seven shocks randomized of their vehiclinro­ads, body’s some immune motorists system, who work in collaborat­ion with the cles ical were trials getting evaluating damaged three included alleviatin­g Noah inflammati­on, bus drivers Kitwe City Council (KCC) to because steroids of the in bad over state 1,700 of the papleaded swelling with and the pain. MP to Many work

Covid-19 patients die not grade some of the roads and roads. tients. The study concluded hard and ensure the roads

of the virus, but of the

that each of the three drugs reduced the risk of death.

That paper and three related studies were published in the journal JAMA, along with an editorial describing the research as an “important step forward in the treatment of patients with Covid-19.”

TIwere worked on because shocks of their vehicles were being broken when trying to avoid potholes on roads.

Martin Mutondo, a transporte­r, said the roads from Kamwanya to Mpandafish­ala was in bad state and needed urgent rehabilita­tion works .

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