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'Govt has made steady improvements in redressing MoH human resource crisis'

'Govt has made steady improvements in redressing MoH human resource crisis'
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Mon 08 Nov. 2010, 04:00 CAT

HEALTH minister Kapembwa Simbao on Friday said the government has made steady improvement in redressing the human resource crisis in the ministry.

In a speech read for him by Eastern Province deputy permanent secretary Nicholas Banda at the combined graduation ceremony for Chipata, Mwami and St Francis schools of nursing and midwifery at Mphangwe Motel in Katete, Simbao said the government was redressing the health human resource crisis by training more nurses and midwives.

He said a good number of health workers that were abroad had come back and were working in various health facilities.

“I am pleased to mention that Chipata, Mwami and St Francis Schools of nursing have steadily been increasing the sizes of their intakes and this will see an improvement in the pool of nurses and midwives in the country despite the many challenges that training institutions are facing,” Simbao said.

He said staffing in the health training schools was a big challenge and that this was why government was working in partnership with the School of Medicine at the University of Zambia in an effort to increase the size of intakes.

Simbao hoped that as partners resume funding to the Ministry of Health, challenges such as financial resources to the sector’s infrastructure development and transport would be taken care of next year.

He said the government would not delay in deploying the graduands to various health care facilities in the country.

Simbao also reminded the graduands about the HIV and AIDS pandemic which he said was real.

Eastern Province health director Dr Kennedy Malama said there was an increase in the output from training institutions in the province because of the enabling environment created through the provision of appropriate human, material and financial resources from government.

Dr Malama said the graduation ceremony was a special one because it had produced an unprecedented 188 graduands.

And speaking of behalf of the three nursing schools, St Francis Nursing School principal Silanda Koliswa said the three institutions had endeavoured to produce nurses and midwives who were able to meet the health challenges faced in the community.

Koliswa said the many hurdles that health staff encounter did not deter them because their profession was a special one.

Labels: KAPEMBWA SIMBAO, MINISTRY OF HEALTH

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