Serenje, Mkushi old hospitals to become nursing

SERENJE and Mkushi old hospitals will soon be turned into nursing schools, Central Province Minister Sydney Mushanga has disclosed. Mr. Mushanga announced this during a briefing for First Lady Easter Lungu at Nindo Lodge on her visit to Mkushi to launch national safe motherhood week commemorated in Mkushi under the theme: Universal access to sexual reproductive health services: Leaving no one behind. Mr. Mushanga said opening of the two nursing schools will go a long way in reducing distances and movements young people covered to access nursing training in far places. Mr Mushanga said the project would start with Serenje and then be rolled out to Mkushi. “There is also good news madam first lady that, the old district hospital will be turned into a nursing school so that we can shorten distances that the locals here in Mkushi, especially young people, in terms of the movements they have been making from here to access health training in other areas. “We are starting with Serenje, once we are finish turning the old infrastructure into a nursing school, we will be moving to Mkushi,” Mr. Mushanga said. Mr. Mushanga added that, in the area of infrastructure, Mkushi new hospital was still being worked on. He said once fully completed, it was expected to be commissioned by the end of this year. Mr. Mushanga mentioned that interms of operations, so far since the project started in Mkushi,more than 20 women have been operated on. And Mr. Mushanga revealed that there was still high teen pregnancies and early marriages in Mkushi. He expressed hope that, the safe motherhood week will reduce the scourge of teen pregnancy and early marriages through sensitisation because most of the activities were tailored to to focus on issues to do with adolescence preganacy and early marriages among others.