LIVINGSTONE HEALTH DELIVERY PRAISED

Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:01:05 +0000

By Sandra Machima

QUALITY of health care service delivery is key to improving the health sector in the country, Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary for Health Services Dr. Jabbin Mulwanda has said.

Dr. Mulwanda said he was impressed with the quality of health care service delivery to the community of Livingstone although more work needs to be done.

He said, although health facilities in the area have scored a number of successes in delivering quality health services, there was still room to do better.  He was in Livingstone to check on health service delivery at Livingstone Central Hospital, Linda and Mosi-O-Tunya clinics.

 Dr Mulwanda, however, urged health workers to make a difference by working closely with the community, and that the Ministry was always available to render them the necessary support.

And Dr Mulwanda said HIV prevention campaigns were going on smoothly. He said the VMMC campaigns comes at a time when the country had adopted the universal routine HIV testing and as part of male circumcision programme, adding that clients were tested and immediately linked to care if they test HIV positive.