LCC maintains 980 deaths recorded in three weeks are factual

Lusaka city council (LCC) Acting Public Relations Manager Brenda Katongola has maintained that the figures on the number of deaths recorded at the council for Lusaka province are factual.

Last month the Lusaka city council reveled that they had recorded over 980 deaths in a period of three months in Lusaka at their burial permit office at the University Teaching Hospital.

These figures have however been questioned by various sections of society including the ministry of health.

But Mrs. Katongola has maintained and clarified that the figures must have appeared high because they are obtained from deaths recorded from various health posts around Lusaka City.

She has explained to QTV News that Lusaka only has one LCC burial permit office located at the university teaching hospital where all deaths that have occurred in which ever part of Lusaka are recorded.

She has since urged the media not to exaggerate the numbers further clarifying that the recorded deaths did not only happen at UTH but in other clinics both private and government.