JCTR stresses need to improve service delivery in rural areas

The Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has stressed the need to improve service delivery in the areas of health, education, water and sanitation provision in rural areas.

Speaking during a site visit at Ilute Clinic in Kambule ward in Mongu district, JCTR Outreach regional officer, Febby Moono says the center is concerned with the poor public service delivery by government institutions meant to provide social services to communities especially in rural areas.

Mrs Moono says most communities lack proper health and sanitation services which they are supposed to receive from public institutions.

She has bemoaned the poor road network leading to Ilute clinic in Mongu, which she says is disadvantaging the poor people in the area who have to walk long distances through the sand to access the health facility for medical services.

Mrs Moono states that JCTR has embarked on a social economic development program meant to scale up media coverage on public resource, governance and monitoring with the aim of influencing government to act on some challenges that institutions meant to provide social service face.

Speaking earlier on behalf of the sister-in-charge at Ilute health clinic, Malita Mutabiko called on government and well wishers to assist the clinic with an ambulance that would help ferry patients with complications to Lewanika general hospital.