GOVT URGED TO DEPLOY MORE HEALTH 3 September, 2020 COVID-19: PERSONNEL TO SOLWEZI
STAKEHOLDERS have appealed to Steroids can help the sickest government to prioritise deploying more health personnel to Solwezi district in the ongo
patients, studies show
ing recruitment of staff.
This is because the mining town has inadequate health personnel.
In a statement issued
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Steroids like dexamethasone, hydrocortisone ceremony and methylprednisolone to mark the commencement are often of used the by construcdoction tors was to done tamp recently down by the Vice
body’s immune system,
President Mutale Nalumango.
alleviating inflammation,
They have also called on
swelling and pain. Many
the government to improve
Covid-19 patients die not
the infrastructure at various
of the virus, but of the
health facilities in the district
body’s overreaction to
in order to meet the growing
the infection.
demand.
The stakeholders have also observed that the poor road Corticosteroids network has affected should
now be the first-line treatthe delivery of quality health services in the district hence the need to improve the road network.
They have demanded that government releases funds to upgrade the Solwezi General Hospital which currently is the only referral hospital in the district.
“Similarly, we appeal to government to extend this gesture to all the rural and urban health facilities in the district,” said the stakeholders.
The stakeholders have further observed that there is lack of essential medicines in health facilities in the district.
They have appealed to government to address the issue and called for the formation of community based support groups.
They have appealed to government to extend the National Health Insurance Management Agency ( NHIMA) to all health facilities in the district.