By SANFROSSA MANYINDA
GOVERNMENT should address the plight of healthcare workers at the frontline by ensuring that the Covid-19 vaccine is acquired quickly, the Medical Quality Health Care in Zambia (MHQZ) has said.
MQHZ says health care workers were sacrificing a lot for the country and could not be allowed to die while attending to patients.
MQHZ Quality Assurance Director, Lwansa Mulenga, said in an interview making the vaccine available as quickly as possible would be a way of appreciating the frontline workers for their great sacrifice.
Dr Mulenga stressed the need for Government leaders to put heads together and discuss how quickly the vaccine could be made available.
“Government should approach this matter with much speed because if we are not responsive enough, we might end up being isolated from the international community.
“Government must also put in place deliberate measures to protect the citizens and put heads together as well as treat it as an emergency,” he said.
Dr Mulenga noted that headway would have been done on the matter considering that it was almost a year since the pandemic broke out in the country.
He said Government should consider getting the vaccine first even on a smaller scale for the health workers.
Last week, the Resident Doctors Association of Zambia also urged Government to urgently acquire the vaccine for the healthcare workers.
The organisation said that in as much as government was trying to see which vaccine would be best considering the emerging variant in the country, it was important that health workers were urgently considered.
