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Chingola MMD women rubbish mobile hospitals

Chingola MMD women rubbish mobile hospitals
By Darious Kapembwa in Chingola
Tue 12 Apr. 2011, 04:10 CAT

MMD women in Chingola’s Kabundi East township have said the decision by the government to commit Zambians to a US $53 million debt used to purchase mobile hospitals is an insult to the general citizenry.

Speaking on Sunday when she led 25 other MMD cadres who defected to join the opposition Patriotic Front (PF), former MMD member Joyce Chilebela said she had no better word than “rubbish” to describe the mobile hospitals that President Rupiah Banda had just launched.

“Was it done to please their Chinese colleagues?” she asked. “Right now there is a crisis in hospitals where one nurse is in charge of one ward, there is no manpower and no medicines but they go to procure that nonsense and on credit for that matter!” Chilebela said.

She said the situation in the clinics and hospitals was pathetic and wondered how mobile hospitals would alleviate problems in the health sector when the government had failed to deal with existing problems in old hospitals.

“We as the women suffer the most in hospitals because we are forced to nurse our patients from homes due to insufficient manpower in hospitals and even if you go there, all the medicines have been stolen. That is why me and a lot of my colleagues decided that we should move to Michael Sata because he is now being proven right,” she said.

And Doreen Kase also said a lot of people in the MMD had realised the mistake they made by voting for MMD and President Banda.

“We the ordinary people feel cheated and whether they like it or not we will vote for Sata even if we do not like the MP,” she said.

“People rejected those Chinese mobile clinics but someone went ahead and committed us to undesired loans. We’ll not give them chance this time,” she said.

Meanwhile, PF Kabundi ward chairperson, Rachael Nkhowani, said it was a well-known fact that Zambians had decided to change and put the right party in charge of national affairs.

“Now our children will be paying back debts they did not benefit from,” said Nkhowani.

Labels: HEALTHCARE, MMD, MOBILE HOSPITALS

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